Christina Gerhardt

Professor Gerhardt is Editor-in-Chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the quarterly journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), published by Oxford University Press. Gerhardt has written about walking and experiential learning, civic engagement and citizen science; about human-animal-environment entanglement; about petro-cultures and petro-landscapes, e.g. plastic and the Pacific; about sea level rise and islands; and about future shorelines. She also uses site specific public art installations to foster civic engagement. She has led walking tours, with both classes and the public, revealing the past histories hidden in the urban landscape, considering how the present day environment came to be shaped, and imagining possible future geographies.

Gerhardt has written about new wave cinemas of the long sixties, including feminist and political cinema, about the representation of the Red Army Faction in film, about New German Cinema and the Berlin School, and about directors ranging from Helke Sander and Harun Farocki to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Hito Steyerl.

Gerhardt has published on critical theory and on Theodor W. Adorno. Her writings examine the concept of nature and of animals in the writings of the Frankfurt School's first generation. She has published articles on Adorno and nature; on nature in Adorno and Kracauer; on animals and compassion in the writings of Adorno, Horkheimer and Schopenhauer; and on animals in Adorno, Cixous, Derrida and Levinas.

• Screening the Red Army Faction: Historical and Cultural Memory, 2018. pb 2020.

• Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968. 2019
• 1968 and Global Cinema. 2018

• 1968 and West German Cinema, Editor, special issue of The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture, 2017
• Adorno and Ethics, Editor, special issue of New German Critique, 2006

• "Back to the Future or Forward to the Past: Ocean Voyaging and Slow Travel." in Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. Edited by Peter Arnds. 44.1 (2020).
• "Sea Level Rise, Marshall Islands and Environmental Justice." in Climate Justice and Community Renewal: Resistance and Grassroots Solutions. Edited by Brian Tokar and Tamra Gilbertson. Routledge, 2020. pp. 70-81.
• "Liquidity Incorporated: Economic Tides and Fluid Data in Hito Steyerl's Liquidity, Inc." Co-authored with Jaimey Hamilton Faris. In Makes Waves: Water in Contemporary Literature and Film. Edited by Paula Anca Farca. University of Nevada Press, 2019. pp. 12-21.
• "Travel Writing and Post-Colonial Critique: Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands." in Anxious Journey: Twenty-First Century Travel Writing in German. Co-Edited by Karin Baumgartner and Monika Shafi. Camden House, 2019. pp. 193-206.
• "Plastic and the Pacific: Midway Atoll, Plastiglomerate and Love of Place." in Mosaic 51.3 (2018): 123–140.
• "Walking, We Ask Questions: Experiential Learning and Environmental Humanities." in Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education. Edited by Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson. Lexington Books, 2018. pp. 133-151.

• Christina Gerhardt and Marco Abel. "Introduction: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968." in Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968. Co-Edited by Christina Gerhardt and Marco Abel. Rochester: Camden House, 2019. pp. 1-23.
• Christina Gerhardt. "Helke Sander's dffb Films and the West German Feminist Movement." in Celluloid Revolt: German Screen Cultures and the Long 1968. Co-Edited by Christina Gerhardt and Marco Abel. Rochester: Camden House, 2019. pp. 69-86.
• Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi. "Looking Back: Global Cinema and the Legacy of New Waves around 1968." in 1968 and Global Cinema. Co-Edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. pp. 1-20.
• "Internationalism and the Early Student Films of the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb)." in 1968 and Global Cinema. Co-Edited by Christina Gerhardt and Sara Saljoughi. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2018. pp. 96-116.
• "On Liberated Women in an Un-Liberated Society: Ula Stöckl's The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968)." in Women, Global Protest Movements and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968. Co-Edited by Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher. New York: Routledge, 2018. pp. 69-83.
• Gerhardt, Christina (2017). "Fassbinder's Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) in a Genealogy of the Arbeiterfilme". Film Criticism. 41 (1). doi:10.3998/fc.13761232.0041.109.
• Gerhardt, Christina (2017). "1968 and the Early Cinema of the dffb". The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. 10 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1080/17541328.2017.1326731.
• Gerhardt, Christina (2017). "Introduction: Cinema in West Germany around 1968". The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. 10 (1): 1–9. doi:10.1080/17541328.2017.1327749.