Christina Gerhardt

Christina Gerhardt is an author, academic and journalist.

She is Professor and Leir Chair at Clark University, where she is the Co-Founding Co-Director of the Environmental Humanities. She is the former Barron Visiting Professor of the Environmental Humanities at the High Meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University; a former Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at the Ludwig Maximilian University; and a permanent Senior Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught previously.

She has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Newberry Library, among others. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Columbia University and the Free University in Berlin.

She is 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.

Her environmental journalism has been published in The Guardian, Grist, The Nation, Orion, Sierra, among other venues.

She is a frequent media commentator and has been interviewed on ABC, Fox and NBC Affiliates and BBC’s World Service, CBC’s The Current Affair, as well as NPR’s 1A, All Things Considered and Morning Edition, among other venues.