Member Bio
Christina Gerhardt is an associate professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Before this, she worked as a Barron Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University. She is a senior fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, where she previously taught. Professor Gerhardt has been awarded fellowships by various institutions and commissions, including the Fulbright Commission, the DAAD, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library, and the Rachel Carson Center. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the Free University Berlin, and Columbia University.
Besides her professorship at the University of Hawai'i, she is the 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. She also serves on the editorial board of the PMLA: Publication of the Modern Languages Association, the advisory board of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press), and the editorial board of Media and the Environment (University of California Press).