publications

Monograph:

The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries. London: Routledge, 2019.

Edited collections:

[with Frederike Felcht]: “Meere in der skandinavischen Literatur” Special issue. Nordeuropaforum: 2024.

[with Daniela Dora]: “Ecology in German Literary Criticism — Recent Developments and Approaches.” Special Issue. Oxford German Studies 51:3 (2022)

[with Astrid Bracke]: “Waters Rising.” Special issue. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 24:1 (2020).

[with Frederike Felcht]: “The Imagination of Limits: Exploring Scarcity and Abundance.” RCC Perspectives 2015, no. 2.

Articles and book chapters:

“Doggerland Rising: Oil, Literature, and Resilience.” In Kate Rigby and Evi Zemanek (eds.), Narratives of Resilience / Narrative der Resilienz. Berlin: Metzler, 2025.

[with Nicola Thomas] “‘past-past time’: Anthropocene Arrhythmia and Reparative Philology in Ulrike Draesner’s Doggerland (2021)” German Life & Letters 3:78 (2025), 364–379.

[with Nicole Seymour] “Anti-Pastoral Allegory.” Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture 1 & 2 (2024), 1–18.

[with George Holmes, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Graham Huggan, Eveline de Smalen, and Pavla Simkova] “Creating Corridors for Nature Protection: Conservation Humanities as an Intervention in Contemporary European Biodiversity Strategies.” Environmental Humanities 16:1 (2024), 183–200.

“Sentimentality, Sacrifice, and Oil: Reckoning with Offshore Extractive Trauma.” In Axelle Germanez, Daniela Gutiérrez Fuentes, Sarah Marak & Heike Paul (eds), To the Last Drop: Affective Economies of Extraction and Sentimentality. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2023.

“Energy in Crisis: New Perspectives on Petrocultures.” Ecozon@ 14:1 (2023), 203–9.

[with Eveline de Smalen] “Literature and the Wadden Sea: Teaching Coastal Environments through Literature.” Coastal Studies & Society 2:4 (2023), 331–335.

“Sweat, Light, and Oil: Seeing the Energy in Roy Jacobsen’s Barrøy Novels.” Edda: Scandinavian Journal of Literary Research 109:2 (2022), 126–39.

[with Eveline de Smalen] “Imagining the Anthropocene with the Wadden Sea. ” Maritime Studies 20 (2021), 293–303. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-021-00230-5

[with George Holmes, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Graham Huggan, Eveline de Smalen, and Pavla Simkova] “Mainstreaming the Humanities in Conservation.” Conservation Biology
(2021), 1–4.

[with Sissel Furuseth, Anne Gjelsvik, Ahmet Gürata, Reinhard Hennig, Julia Leyda] “Climate Change in Literature, Television and Film from Norway.” Ecozon@ 11:2 (2020), 8–16.

“The View from the Sea: The Power of a Blue Comparative Literature.” Humanities 9:68 (2020)

“Silt.” Environmental Humanities 11.2 (2019), 461–4.

“Nordic Natures on the Edge of the North Sea.” In Reinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson and Peter Degerman (eds.): Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment: Ecocritical Approaches to Northern European Literatures and Cultures. New York: Bloomsbury, 2018.

“Engineering the Anthropocene: Technology, Ambition, and Enlightenment in Theodor Storm’s Der Schimmelreiter.” In Sabine Wilke and Japhet Johnstone (eds.): Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Book reviews:

“Melanie Dennis Unrau: The Rough Poets. Reading Oil Worker Poetry.” In H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences (2025).

“David Larsson Heidenblad: Den gröna vändningen.” In: H-Soz-Kult (2021).

“Nicole Seymour: Bad Environmentalism. Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age.” In: Ecozon@ (2019).

“The Breakthrough of Environmental History: Review of Stormflod by Bo Poulsen.” In: Seeing the Woods (2019).

“Reinhard Hennig: Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen. Ein interdisziplinärer Beitrag zu den »environmental humanities.” In: IASLOnline (2015).