Prof. Dr. Christine Gerhardt

Monographien und Herausgeberschaften

• A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013. (advance contract)
• Religion in the USA. Hg. Jeanne Cortiel, Christine Gerhardt, Kornelia Freitag und Michael Wala. Heidelberg: Winter, 2011.
• Rituale des Scheiterns: Die Reconstruction-Periode im US-amerikanischen Roman. Heidelberg: Winter, 2002.

Aufsätze

• “‘Nothing Stays Put’: Environmental Memory and Migration in American Poetry.” Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry. Ed. Kornelia Freitag. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. In preparation.
• "Beyond Climate Refugees: Nature, Risk and Migration in American Poetry.” The Shaping Power of Risk: Literature – Culture – Environment. Ed. Sylvia Mayer and Alexa Weik von Mossner. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. In print.
• With Jeanne Cortiel, “Radical, Transatlantic, Complex: European American Studies and Interdisciplinarity.” American Studies/Shifting Gears: A Publication of the DFG Research Network "The Futures of (European) American Studies." Ed. M. Butter et al. Heidelberg: Winter, 2010. 179-200.
• “Sounding Together: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and the Ocean of Organic Life.” Words on Water. Ed. Maureen Devine and Christa Grewe-Volpp. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. 131-146.
• “‘Earth adhering to their roots’: Dickinson, Whitman, and the Ecology of Bookmaking.” American Studies as Media Studies. Ed. Daniel Stein. Heidelberg: Winter, 2008. 37-46.
• “‘Often seen–but seldom felt’: Emily Dickinson’s Reluctant Ecology of Place.” The Emily Dickinson Journal 15.1 (2006): 56-78.
• “Literature, Nature, and the Crux of Consciousness Raising.” Ecodidactics: Perspectives on English Language, Literatures and Cultures. Ed. Sylvia Mayer and Graham Wilson. Trier: WVT, 2006. 223-233.
• “‘Syllabled to us for Names’: Native American Echoes in Walt Whitman’s Green Poetics.” Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. Ed. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2006. 209-228.
• “Nature.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature. 5 vols. Ed. David Macey and Hans Ostrom. Vol. 3. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005. 1174-1183.
• “‘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): inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/papers/gerhardt040601.html
• “Managing the Wilderness: Walt Whitman’s Southern Landscapes.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 40.2 (Spring 2004): 225-235.
• “Teaching Against the Grain.” The United States in Global Contexts: American Studies After 9/11 and Iraq. Ed. Walter Grünzweig. Münster: Lit, 2004. 52.
• “North, South, East, West: Constructing Region in Southern and East German Literature.” South to a New Place. Ed. Susanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 303-319.
• “Border Ecology: The Slave Narrative of Henry Bibb, Nature, and the Frontier Myth.” The African American Environmental Imagination. Ed. Sylvia Mayer. FORECAAST: Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies. Münster: LIT, 2002. 11-29.
• “The Greening of African American Literary Landscapes: Where Ecocriticism Meets Post-Colonial Theory.” Mississippi Quarterly 55.4 (Fall 2002): 515-533.
• “Conflicting Politics of Liberation: The Reconstruction Period in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy (1892) and Margaret Walker’s Jubilee (1966).” Black Liberation in the Americas. Ed. Fritz Gysin and Christopher Mulvey. FORECAAST: Forum for European Contributions in African American Studies 6. Münster: LIT, 2001. 105-117.
• “Exploring Unexpected Regions: Teaching Southern Literature from an (East) German Perspective.” Profession 1999 (New York: MLA, 1999): 68-78.
• “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.

Rezensionen

• Review, Robert Boschman. In the Way of Nature: Ecology and Westward Expansion in the Poetry of Anne Bradstreet, Elizabeth Bishop and Amy Clampitt. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. Anglia 130.1 (2012): 144-46.
• Review, Hubert Zapf. Literatur als kulturelle Ökologie: Zur kulturellen Funktion imaginativer Texte an Beispielen des amerikanischen Romans. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2002. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 29.2 (2004): 261-264.
• Review, Luke Mancuso. The Strange, Sad War Revolving: Walt Whitman, Reconstruction, and the Emergence of Black Citizenship, 1865-1976. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997. Amerikastudien 45.2 (2000): 265-267.
• Review, Bernd Rasche. Der Zwang zum Erfolg. Kulturgeschichtliche Untersuchungen eines modernen Leidens an amerikanischer Kurzprosa des 20. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung, 1991. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 21.2 (1996): 315-318.
• Review, Heinrich Nuhn. August Spies. Ein hessischer Sozialrevolutionär in Amerika. Kassel: Jenior Pressler, 1992. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 20.1 (1995): 254-256.
• Review, Birgit Erika Kretzer. Zwischen Kulturprotest und Flucht: Der jüdisch-amerikanische Roman von 1920 bis Ende der 70er Jahre. Eine Analyse an ausgewählten Beispielen. Aachen: K. Fischer, 1993. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 20.1 (1995): 251-254.

Übersetzungen

• Karen Rosenberg. “Altern in Tillie Olsens Amerika.” Gibt es ein Leben ohne Arbeit? Ed. Rainer Noltenius. Essen: Klartext, 2000. 114-115.
• Simon Dell. “Über die Darstellung von Arbeitslosigkeit in der Kunst der Weimarer Republik.” Gibt es ein Leben ohne Arbeit? Ed. Rainer Noltenius. Essen: Klartext, 2000. 106-112.
• Karen Rosenberg. “Engagierte Kunst in der Öffentlichkeit: Filme zum Thema Arbeitslosigkeit.” Gibt es ein Leben ohne Arbeit? Ed. Rainer Noltenius. Essen: Klartext, 2000. 59-62.
• Jürgen Link. “On the Specificity of Modern Collective Symbolism: The Techno-Vehicle-Body and Normalization” Symbolism: A New International Annual of Critical Aesthetics 3 (1999): 205-228.
• Margaret Cotroneo. “Das Verlorene Kind: Ansichten einer amerikanischen Familientherapeutin über Jugend-Gewalt und das Versagen der Eltern.” Berliner Zeitung, 18./19. Juli 1998: Magazin, S. III.