Seth Peabody

Membership:  2019

Member Bio

Seth Peabody is assistant professor of German at Carleton College, United States. His research focuses on the intersections between environmental humanities, film and media, and German language and culture. His monograph, Film History for the Anthropocene: The Ecological Archive of German Cinema, appeared in December 2023. He has also published a number of articles on sustainability education and language pedagogy, and is involved with several working groups devoted to this topic. He has earned degrees from Harvard University (PhD and MA) and Northwestern University (BA and BMus) and returned to the Rachel Carson Center as a visiting scholar in 2024–2025 after prior visits as a Fulbright grantee in graduate school (2013–14) and a Carson Fellow (summer 2019).

 

Projects

Publications

  • Film History for the Anthropocene: The Ecological Archive of German Cinema. Camden House, 2023. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.4032523.
  • “Heimat for One? Spaces of Community and Disability in Arbeit und Struktur and Tschick.” In Heimat and Migration: Reimagining the Regional and the Global in the Twenty-First Century. Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies, edited by Josef Stuart Len Cagle, Thomas Herold, and Gabriele Maier, vol. 34. DeGruyter, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733150-010.
  • “Image, Environment, Infrastructure: The Social Ecologies of the Bergfilm.” Humanities 10, no. 1 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/h10010038.
  • “Infrastructure, Water, Ecology: Fritz Lang’s Metropolis as Ecological Archive.” Colloquia Germanica 53, no. 2–3 (2021): 249–67.
  • with Kiley Kost. “Environment and Engagement in German Studies: Projects and Resources for Critical Environmental Thinking.” Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German 54, no. 2 (2021): 245–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/tger.12174.
  • “Goethe and (Um)Weltliteratur: Environment and Power in Goethe’s Literary Worlds.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 54, no. 2 (May 2018): 215–230.
  • “A Letter to Yvon Chouinard.” RCC Perspectives no. 6 (2014): 27-30. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6804.
  • with Amanda Randall, “Unpacking Heimat: A Spiraled Approach to Identity and Belonging for Global German Studies.” Global German Studies (special issue: Die Unterrichtspraxis) (forthcoming).
  • "Review: Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond, ed. Wilke and Johnstone; and German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene, ed. Schaumann and Sullivan." German Studies Review 42, no. 2 (forthcoming).

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