Assoc Prof of German Studies in Arizona, thinking about plants, animals, the environment, German Jewish identities, science, gender, and sexuality. Check out the Literary & Cultural Plant Studies Network.
Joela Jacobs
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Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.
Over the summer, we are working on an exciting new initiative for the Umwelt Center: A wiki for key concepts in the Environmental Humanities & Germanic Studies!
We invite 750-1000 w. entries - for more details, see the call here:
germanic.osu.edu/umwelt-wiki
#envhum #environmentalhumanities
Ssve the Date:
Conference “The Many Meanings of Flora: Re-Evaluating the Aesthetics and Politics of Plants”, December 11-12, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Co-organized by my fantastic colleague Anita Hosseini and yours truly
Plants & Place: Cultivating Un/Belonging through Vegetal Tropes, posting by Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social, traces "how botanical metaphors from Humboldt’s ecological observations to modern political rhetoric shape powerful & sometimes dangerous narratives" cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications...
Free webinar from The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social Perspectives on Plants: From Phytopoetics to Networking in Community, a conversation with Dr. Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social, Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12-1 pm CT. www.eventbrite.com/e/perspectiv...
#newbook: "Plant Poetics. Literary Forms and Functions of the Vegetal" (ed. Joela Jacobs, Isabel Kranz, and Solvejg Nitzke).
More info: brill.com/display/titl...
#planthum #envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism @joelalala.bsky.social @isabelkranz.bsky.social @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social
