Seth Peabody is assistant professor of German at Carleton College, United States. His research focuses on the intersections between environmental humanities, film and media, and German language and culture. His monograph, Film History for the Anthropocene: The Ecological Archive of German Cinema, appeared in December 2023. He has also published a number of articles on sustainability education and language pedagogy, and is involved with several working groups devoted to this topic. He has earned degrees from Harvard University (PhD and MA) and Northwestern University (BA and BMus) and is thrilled to be back at the Rachel Carson Center after prior visits as a Fulbright grantee in graduate school (2013–14) and a Carson Fellow (summer 2019).
RCC Research Project: Beyond Green Germany: Conflict and Change in German and Austrian Environmental Culture
Selected Publications:
- Film History for the Anthropocene: The Ecological Archive of German Cinema. Camden House, 2023. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.4032523.
- “Heimat for One? Spaces of Community and Disability in Arbeit und Struktur and Tschick.” In Heimat and Migration: Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century. Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies, edited by Josef Stuart Len Cagle, Thomas Herold, and Gabriele Maier, vol. 34. DeGruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733150-010.
- “Image, Environment, Infrastructure: The Social Ecologies of the Bergfilm.” Humanities 10, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/h10010038.
- “Infrastructure, Water, Ecology: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis as Ecological Archive.” Colloquia Germanica 53, no. 2–3 (2021): 249–67.
- with Kiley Kost. “Environment and Engagement in German Studies: Projects and Resources for Critical Environmental Thinking.” Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 54, no. 2 (2021): 245–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12174.