Network Members
Ecocritical perspectives in German-language literature
International Researchers can publish a short bio with information on relevant ecocritical projects in the field of German Studies and publications on this page. If you like to be added or have updates through our mailing list please
email: ecogermanstudies@gmail.com
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Hofert Sandra
Sandra Hofert studied Cultural Studies and German Literature in Berlin, completing her PhD in Mainz. Her doctoral thesis was published in 2021 under the title “Didaxe und Natur”. Since 2020, she is a research assistant in German Medieval Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Her main research interests include the medieval conceptualisation of nature, ecocriticism and animal studies. Relevant publications are f. e. “Die Poetiken des Seesturms” (published 2024 in BME 17), “Animals and Emotions in Medieval German Literature” (published 2023 in Aestimatio 3.2), “Vom Schweigen der Vögel in Soltâne. Naturästhetik und das Experiment eines Ecocritical Close Readings von Wolframs ‘Parzival’ (mit einem Ausblick auf ‘Iwein’ und ‘Tristan’)“ (published 2025 in Archiv 262.2).
Link: https://www.germanistik.phil.fau.de/person/hofert-sandra/
Mail: sandra.hofert@fau.de
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Ognjanović Branka
Branka Ognjanović is currently an assistant professor of German at the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Belgrade Metropolitan University (Serbia). She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in German Studies from the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac, where she also completed a PhD in Literary Studies. Her doctoral thesis examined the science fiction novels of Alfred Döblin and Dietmar Dath through the lens of posthuman ecocriticism. Relevant research interests: ecocritical readings of contemporary German literature; ecocritical approaches to children’s and young adult literature from a comparative perspective; and ecocritical pedagogy in the national/foreign language and literature education.
Link: https://www.metropolitan.ac.rs/profesori/branka-ognjanovic
Mail: branka.ognjanovic@metropolitan.ac.rs
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Sabban Adela Sophia
Adela Sophia Sabban is currently a research and teaching assistant in the Department of GermanStudies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. She studied German language and literature, art history,musicology, and philosophy in Munich and Padua. Her research focuses on poetry, particularly from the20th and 21st centuries, literature after 1945, and the relationship between text and image. Upcomingpublications as editor: A journal volume on “Natur und Religion im Werk Christian Lehnerts” and a volumeon “Natur in der neueren Lyrik – komparatistische Zugänge”.
Link: https://adelasabban.wordpress.com/literaturwissenschaft/
Mail: adela.sabban@unifr.ch
Sullivan Heather I.
Heather I. Sullivan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Trinity University in Texas, USA. She has published widely in North America and Europe on ecocriticism and the Anthropocene, Goethe, German Romanticism, petro-texts, the “dark green,” fairy tales, and critical plant studies, and is currently working on a manuscript “The Dark Green: Plants, People, Power.” Sullivan is co-editor of German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene (2017); of The Early History of Embodied Cognition, 1746-1920 (2016); of numerous special volumes on ecocriticism; and the author of Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck’s Early Works. She is past President of the North American Goethe Society, Associate Editor of the European Ecocriticism Journal Ecozon@, and Co-editor of the De Gruyter series, “Ecocriticism Unbound.”
Link: https://www.trinity.edu/directory/hsulliva
Mail: hsulliva@trinity.edu