Dr. Christina Gerhardt

Christina Gerhardt is an associate professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Before this, she worked as a Barron Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. She is a senior fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, where she previously taught. Professor Gerhardt has been awarded fellowships by various institutions and commissions, including the Fulbright Commission, the DAAD, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, and the Rachel Carson Center. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the Free University Berlin, and Columbia University.

Besides her professorship at the University of Hawai'i, she is the editor-in-chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, the quarterly journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), published by Oxford University Press. She also serves on the editorial board of the PMLA: Publication of the Modern Languages Association, the advisory board of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press), and the editorial board of Media and the Environment (University of California Press).

RCC Research Project: Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean

Selected Publications:

• Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023. Available for pre-order at University of California Press.
• “Climate Change, the Caribbean, and Literature.” In Teaching the Literature of Climate Change, edited by Debby Rosenthal. New York: Modern Language Association, 2023.
• “Postcolonial Cartographies, Environmental Humanities, and Sea Level Rise.” In Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media, edited by Cajetan Iheka, 119–128. New York: Modern Language Association, 2021.
• “Plastiglomerate: Plastic, Geology, and the New Materialism of the Anthropocene.” In Plastic Legacies: Persistence, Pollution and Politics, edited by Trisia Farrelly, Sy Taffel, and Ian Shaw, 103–115. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2021.
• “Back to the Future or Forward to the Past: Ocean Voyaging and Slow Travel.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 44, no. 1 (summer 2020). https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2119.
• “Sea Level Rise, Marshall Islands and Environmental Justice.” In Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions, edited by Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson, 70–81. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.