• Interdisciplinary work that studies the interface between literature and science is my primary interest; and I'm also interested in how broader, international perspectives are necessary in order to best understand both nature and culture. I write about and teach ecocriticism, a literary approach that studies how literature engages and portrays the physical world and environment.

    • Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Washington
    • M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Washington聽
    • B.A. in Biology, University of Puget Sound聽

    聽Books, Edited Volumes, and Special Journal Issues:

    • German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene, co-editors Caroline Schaumann and Heather I. Sullivan. Palgrave Macmillan in series edited by U. Heise:聽Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment,听2017.
    • Special issue and Introduction of聽New German Critique, August 2016, volume 128: 鈥淭he Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: Post-Humanism or New Humanism?鈥 Guest Co-Editors Heather I. Sullivan and Bernhard Malkmus.
    • The Early History of Embodied Cognition聽from 1740-1920: The聽in 骋别谤尘补苍听(Medical) Science, Music, and Literature, co-edited by John McCarthy, Nicholas Saul, Heather I. Sullivan, and Stephanie Hilger. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi Press, 2016.
    • Special issue of聽Colloquia Germanica聽44.2 (2011) on 鈥淒irty Nature,鈥 guest co-editors Heather I. Sullivan and Caroline Schaumann. (published 2014).
    • Special issue of聽Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment聽19.3 (2012) on 鈥淢aterial Ecocriticism: Dirt, Waste, Bodies, Food, and Other Matter,鈥 guest co-editors Dana Phillips and Heather I. Sullivan, 445-447.
    • Heather I. Sullivan,听The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.
    • In progress: monograph,听The Dark Green: Plants, People, and Spores in the Anthropocene. (about 2/3 complete).

    Essays, Introductions, and book Chapters:

    • Essay for special volume on 鈥淧etrofictions鈥 Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淧etro-Texts, Plants, and People in the Anthropocene: The Dark Green,鈥 in聽Green Letters聽24.2 (2019), edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Christa Grewe-Volpp, and Sylvia Mayer.
    • Essay,听co-authored: Heather I. Sullivan and James Shinkle, 鈥淭he Dark Green Ecology in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe鈥檚 Plants in聽Die Metamorphose聽补苍诲听Triumph der Empfindsamkeit,鈥澛Goethe Yearbook聽26 (2019), 143-62.
    • Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淕oethes Metamorphose der Pflanzen: Die Materie des Gr眉nen,鈥澛Materie des Geistes, eds. Sieglinde Grimm & Roman Bartosch, Winter Verlag, 2018, 75-99.
    • Chapter, Heather I. Sullivan,听Goethes Concept of Nature: Proto-ecological Model,鈥 in聽Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture, edited by Gabriele D眉rbeck, Urte Stobbe, Hubert Zapf, and Evi Zemanek. Lanham: Lexington, 2017, 17-29.
    • Invited essay: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淕oethe鈥檚 Colors: Revolutionary Optics and the Anthropocene,鈥澛Eighteenth Century Studies, 51.1 (2017), 115-24.
    • Chapter co-authored, Caroline Schaumann and Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淗ybrid Environments in the Anthropocene: Recent Fiction,鈥 in聽Readings in the Anthropocene: The Environmental Humanities, German Studies, and Beyond, edited by Sabine Wilke and Japhet Johnstone. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017, 38-61.
    • Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淭he Dark Pastoral: A Trope for the Anthropocene鈥 for my co-edited volume with Caroline Schaumann,听German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 25-44.
    • Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淭he Materiality and Ecology of Blue: Goethe and Jeannette Sch盲ring,鈥 invited for Swedish volume,听Matter in Motion and the Mysticism of Nature鈥檚 Colour: The Art of Jeanette Sch盲ring, edited by Fr酶di Lazlo, Sj枚backev盲gen, Sweden: F枚rlaget 284, 2017, 242-252.
    • Magazine essay: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淩ecent German Environmental Literature: Writing Environmental Change and Catastrophe,鈥澛World Literature Today聽March 2017:聽
    • Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淢aterial Ecocriticism and the Petro-Text鈥 invited essay for聽The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. Eds. Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann. London: Routledge, 2017, 414-423.聽
    • Introduction: Co-authored, Heather I. Sullivan and Bernhard Malkmus for special volume of聽New German Critique聽128 (August 2016), 鈥淭he Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: An Introduction.鈥
    • Essay: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淭hreatening Animals鈥 essay for special volume of聽Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism聽on 鈥淧ast the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontologies Stories: Part I,鈥 edited by Serenella Iovino, 4.1 (2016), 39-52.
    • Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淎gency in the Anthropocene: Goethe, Radical Reality, and the New Materialisms,鈥 in聽The Early History of Embodied Cognition聽from 1740-1920: The聽by John McCarthy, Stephanie Hilger, Nicholas Saul, and Heather I. Sullivan, Leiden: Rodopi/Brill, 2016.
    • Essay: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淭he Dark Pastoral: Goethe and Atwood鈥 in special volume on the Pastoral in聽Green Letters聽19.4 (2015): 1-13.
    • Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淢aterialism Ecocriticism,鈥 in German volume聽Ecocriticism: Eine Einf眉hrung, edited by Gabriele D眉rbeck and Urte Stobbe. Cologne, Germany: B枚hlau, 2015, 57-67.
    • Essay: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淣ature and the 鈥楧ark Pastoral鈥 in Goethe鈥檚聽Werther.鈥澛Goethe Yearbook聽22 (2015): 115-132. (Awarded a 2016 annual essay prize from the Goethe Society of North America.)
    • Co-authored essay, Gabriele D眉rbeck, Caroline Schaumann and Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淗uman and non-human Agencies: The Anthropocene, Material Ecocriticism, and the Contributions of Literature.鈥澛贰肠辞锄辞苍蔼听6.1 (2015): 118-136.
      • TRANSLATION into Korean of this essay for the Korean-language book,听Ilryuse: Jomang goa Jeonmang (The Anthropocene: Perspectives and Prospects), with DDWorld in Seoul, December 2016.
    • Essay: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淒irty Traffic and the Dark Pastoral in the Anthropocene: Narrating Refugees, Deforestation, Radiation, and Melting Ice,鈥澛Literatur f眉r Leser聽37.2 (2014): 83-97. (pub. 2015).
    • Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, 鈥淭he Ecology of Color: Goethe鈥檚 Materialist Optics and Ecological Posthumanism,鈥 in聽Material Ecocriticism; eds. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014; 80-94.
    • 骋别谤尘补苍听
    • Ml&L/GRST (German Studies in English)聽
    • Comparative Literature聽
    • GNED - First Year Seminar聽

    Recent聽Grants, Stipends, Sabbaticals, and Academic Honors

    • 2019 - Mellon Grant for summer Undergraduate Research with Abbi Davidnova on the Dark Green: Ecofeminism and Plant-Human kinship
    • 2018聽- Co-Author of $800,000 Mellon Grant for Undergraduate Research in the Arts and Humanities at TU with Chad Spigel; awarded in 2018 for five years
    • 2018 - Course Development Grant, TU, LAC: German Eco-Science Fiction
    • 2018 - Member of Expert Panel for Arctic University of Norway Research Grant; Approved in 2018 for聽24 million NOK (Norwegian Kroner) = ~$2,800,000; interdisciplinary project 鈥淩elics of Nature: Natural Heritage in a Shifting World鈥
    • 2018 - 性爱天堂 Research Sabbatical Granted for Spring 2018
    • 2016-17 - Z.T. Scott Fellowship at 性爱天堂 for outstanding teaching and advising
    • 2016 - Annual聽Goethe Society of North America Essay Prize for 2015 essay, 鈥淣ature and the 鈥楧ark Pastoral鈥 in Goethe's聽Werther,鈥 published in聽Goethe Yearbook.
    • 2016 - 性爱天堂 Summer Stipend for research on 鈥淒ark Pastoral and Environmental Lit鈥
    • 2015 - 性爱天堂 Course Revision Grant for GERM 3302: Oral and Visual, Graphic Novels.
    • 2015 - Mellon Grant: Undergraduate Summer Research: Cli Fi & the Dark Pastoral
    • Chair of ad-hoc Translation Committee providing grants to support international ecocriticism for ASLE, the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, 2013-2016.
    • Reviewer of essays for the academic journals:聽Ecozon@; ISLE, Goethe Yearbook, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses,聽European Romantic Review,听The German Quarterly.
    • Member of Trans-Atlantic Research Network in the Environmental Humanities, Seattle, WA
    • Member of International Research Group in the Environmental Humanities, Torino, Italy
    • Outside Reviewer of German, Russian, Classics department at Occidental College, 2013
    • Advisory Board Member of聽Ecozon@, the European ecocriticism journal.
    • Director at Large for North American Goethe Society, 2012-present; reader for annual prize and co-organizer of conference taking place at U Pittsburg, November 2014.
    • Review of book manuscripts for U of Virginia P, Wesleyan UP, and the Ohio State UP.
    • Review of book proposals for U of Virginia Press.
    • Review of Tenure case in German for a University in Mississippi, 2012.
    • Review book for Council of Graduate Schools鈥 2011 鈥淕.O. Arlt Award in the Humanities.鈥
    • Community Service on 鈥渕i vida鈥 wellness and healthy food committee at St. Anthony鈥檚 Catholic Elementary School, and book fair volunteer, 2006-present.