Christina Gerhardt is an author, academic and journalist. She is Associate Professor and founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; former Barron Professor of the Environment and the Humanities at the High Meadows Environment Institute at Princeton University; and a permanent Senior Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. She has been awarded fellowships by the Fulbright Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newberry Library and the Rachel Carson Center. She has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Harvard University, Columbia University, the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, the Free University in Berlin and the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught previously. Her environmental journalism has been published in Grist, The Nation, The Progressive, Sierra and the Washington Monthly. 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. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of the PMLA: Publication of the Modern Languages Association (Cambridge University Press) and of Media and the Environment (University of California Press) and on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Environmental Media (Intellect Press).
