Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt

Monographien und Herausgeberschaften

  • Handbook of the American Novel of the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Christine Gerhardt. Handbooks of English and American Studies. Berlin and New York: DeGruyter, 2018.
  • Environmental Imaginaries on the Move: Nature and Mobility in American Literature and Culture. Hg. Christine Gerhardt und Christa Grewe-Volpp. Special Issue of American Studies/Amerikastudien 61.4 (2016).
  • A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural WorldIowa City: U of Iowa P, 2014. (ausgezeichnet mit dem Choice Award: Outstanding Academic Title 2015)
  • Religion in the United States. Ed. Jeanne Cortiel, Kornelia Freitag, Christine Gerhardt, und Michael Wala. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.
  • Rituale des Scheiterns: Die Reconstruction-Periode im US-amerikanischen Roman. Heidelberg: Winter, 2002. (Rituals of Failure: The Reconstruction Period in American Fiction)
    • Rezensionen:
      • Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik LII.2 (2004)
      • Amerikastudien/American Studies 48.3 (2003)

Aufs?tze in Fachzeitschriften

  • "Emily Dickinson Now: Environments, Ecologies, Politics. A Commentary." ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 63.2 (2017). 329-355.
  • "Introduction." Environmental Imaginaries on the Move. Special Issue of American Studies/Amerikastudien 61.4 (2016): 413-420. (with Christa Grewe-Volpp)
  • "Imagining a Mobile Sense of Place: Towards an Ecopoetics of Mobility." American Studies/Amerikastudien 61.4 (2016): 421-444.
  • "'Often seen–but seldom felt': Emily Dickinson’s Reluctant Ecology of Place." The Emily Dickinson Journal 15.1 (2006): 56-78.
    • Reprinted in Critical Insights: Emily Dickinson. Ed. Brooks Bouson. New York: Salem Press, 2011. 292-321.
  • "'What was left of Berlin looked bleaker every day': Berlin, Race, and Ethnicity in Recent American Literature." Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention 3.3 (Spring 2004): https://doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1031
  • "Managing the Wilderness: Walt Whitman’s Southern Landscapes." Forum for Modern Language Studies 40.2 (Spring 2004): 225-235.
  • "The Greening of African American Literary Landscapes: Where Ecocriticism Meets Post-Colonial Theory." Mississippi Quarterly 55.4 (Fall 2002): 515-533.
  • "Exploring Unexpected Regions: Teaching Southern Literature from an (East) German Perspective." Profession 1999 (New York: MLA, 1999): 68-78.
    • revised and extended version in South to a New Place. Ed. Susanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 303-319.
  • "Moments of Utopia: Race, Class, and Gender in Reconstruction Fiction." War and Literature Yearbook/Krieg und Literatur 2 (1997): 29-36.
  • "Monstrous Births and Suffrage from Heaven: The Trial of Anne Hutchinson." Studii de Limbi Si Literaturi Moderne, Timisoara (1995): 142-152.

Aufs?tze in Sammelb?nden

  • "'So when the Hills decay': Dickinson’s Mountains, the Anthropocene, and the Crisis of World Responsibility." Conjecturing a Climate: Reading Dickinson at the End of the World. Eds. Keith Mikos, Zachary Tavlin, and Marta Werner. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2025. [in print]