{"id":130976,"date":"2020-11-20T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=130976"},"modified":"2024-03-15T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T23:30:11","slug":"gerhardt-teaches-at-princeton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/20\/gerhardt-teaches-at-princeton\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa professor teaching sea-level rise, islander\u2019s poetry at Princeton"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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Christina Gerhardt<\/strong>, associate professor of German<\/a> at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa has been invited to be the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron 糖心视频ing Professor of the Environment and the Humanities<\/a> at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University for the 2021 calendar year.<\/p>\n

At 糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, Gerhardt\u2019s research and teaching focuses on the environmental humanities, film and German studies. Gerhardt has been working to establish an undergraduate program in the environmental humanities in response to strong student interest in the environment. This work has been supported at 糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa by a Provost Strategic Investment Award.<\/p>\n

At Princeton University, Gerhardt will focus on a research project and have the opportunity to engage with the Princeton community by teaching one course each semester and organizing events.<\/p>\n

Gerhardt will complete her current book project, an Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise<\/em>, which examines the impacts of sea-level rise on low-lying islands around the world. The book combines environmental studies and environmental humanities, geography and cartography, creative nonfiction and poetry to share Indigenous environmental beliefs, sea-level rise impacts and the actions underway being taken to address these impacts. She will also teach a course at Princeton on sea-level rise and islander\u2019s poetry.<\/p>\n

Gerhardt is also editor-in-chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment<\/em><\/a>, the quarterly journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, published by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christina Gerhardt will also complete her current book project, an Atlas of (Remote) Islands and Sea Level Rise<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[758,1314,942,73,9,1626],"class_list":["post-130976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-environmental-science","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-sea-level","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t