Catrin Gersdorf (Würzburg): The Figure of the Superhero in the Age of Climate Change

Catrin Gersdorf’s research is located at the intersection of American Studies and the Environmental Humanities. She is particularly interested in conceptual links between literature, democracy, modernity, and ecology. Further areas of research and teaching include the literature and culture of the Anthropocene, space and landscape in American art and literature, the history and theory of the novel, contemporary poetry, and the literary and cultural history of emotions.