Studies in Environmental Humanities is a platform for forward-looking, humanities-based research on environmental transformation.
At a time when the environmental polycrisis—marked by accelerating climate disruption, biodiversity loss, pollution, and widening socio-ecological inequalities—renders dominant knowledge models increasingly untenable, the Environmental Humanities have become more crucial than ever. Critical humanistic and posthumanities approaches illuminate complex ecological relationalities while challenging inherited anthropocentric frameworks, bridging the entrenched nature–culture divide, and offering transformative ways of engaging with more-than-human worlds. They provide tools for interpretation, critique, imagination, and world-making indispensable for addressing the entangled ecological, technological, and political challenges of our present.
Building on this foundation, the series serves as a key venue for advancing planetary environmental humanities, with particular attention to artistic, aesthetic, material, literary, and media-based modes of inquiry, as well as transdisciplinary work that engages policy, activism, creative practice, or community-based knowledge.
Studies in Environmental Humanities publishes double-anonymously peer-reviewed monographs, edited volumes, and innovative forms of scholarly work that expand the international scope and creative vitality of the field.
Hauke Ohls is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Contemporary Art and Digital Image Cultures at the University of Bonn, Germany, and a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Lena Geuer is an art historian. She works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Art and Music at the TU Dresden and teaches transcultural art history with a focus on modern and contemporary Latin American art. Lena received her PhD on Argentinean art from the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf as part of the graduate program "Materiality and Production". In her habilitation project, she is investigating the concept of renunciation and its aesthetic meaning in the fields of art, ecology and climate change.
Series Editor
Hauke Ohls, University of Bonn, Germany
Lena Geuer, TU Dresden, Germany
Editorial Board
Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo, Norway
Maja Fowkes, University College London, UK
Henrike (Kika) Neuhaus, University of Greenwich, UK
Raphaelle Occhietti, University of Guelph, Canada