My research investigates the braid of literary commerce and cultural commodities, global trade, and the creation of anthropogenic landscapes. Throughout my career, my scholarship examines polyglot worlds, past and present, introducing individuals, cultures, and landscapes often absent from a more conventional syllabus, whether it be for a class on Anglo-European history or environmental studies. Across these fields, my work attends to the formation of literary canons and disciplinary histories. I write about local climate impacts and work to promote climate literacy, especially in Philadelphia’s schools.
Articles & Chapters
“Toward an Anti-Colonial History of Germantown: Christoph Saur’s House.” American Contact: Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the Boundaries of Book History. Ed. Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. 133-141.
“Enduring Colonial Legacies in Philadelphia,” Forum on Activism, Outreach, and Environmental Justice. German Quarterly 97.3 (summer 2024). 404-410.
“Post-Critical Affordances of Environmental Humanities,” Resilience, an Environmental Humanities Journal, 2023.
“Toward an Anti-Colonial History of Germantown: Christoph Saur’s House.” American Contact. Ed. Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. (In press).
“Restoring a River, Re-Story-ing History.” Rising Waters in Philadelphia and Mumbai: A Comparative + Transdisciplinary Intervention. Special Issue of International Journal of Urban and Regional Relations. 2022.
(Co-authored, second author) “Enduring Harm: Unlikely Comparisons, Slow Violence, and the Administration of Urban Injustice.” Rising Waters in Philadelphia and Mumbai: A Comparative + Transdisciplinary Intervention. Special Issue of International Journal of Urban and Regional Relations. 2022.
“Revitalization Tools.” Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives, ed. Adrianna Link, Abigail Shelton, and Patrick Spero. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 121-123.
(Co-authored) “‘On the Best Days, all Three’: Environmental Humanities across Times, Disciplines, and Research Practices.” Timescales: Ecological Temporalities across Disciplines, ed. Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia Kim, and Bethany Wiggin. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. vii-xxviii.
(Co-authored) “Conversations with Dan Rothenberg.” Timescales: Ecological Temporalities across Disciplines, ed. Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia Kim, and Bethany Wiggin. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 71-76.
(Co-authored) “Coda.” Timescales: Ecological Temporalities across Disciplines, ed. Carolyn Fornoff, Patricia Kim, and Bethany Wiggin. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 193-201.(Co-authored, lead author: Emily O’Gorman) “Teaching the Environmental Humanities,” Environmental Humanities 11.2 (November 2019).
(Co-authored, lead author: Emily O’Gorman) “Teaching the Environmental Humanities,” Environmental Humanities 11.2 (November 2019)
“Multilingual Soundings in the Colonial Mid-Atlantic: ‘Differences of manners, languages and extraction, was now no more’?” Babel of the Atlantic, ed. Bethany Wiggin. College Park, PA: Penn State UP, 2019. 1-53.
“Monolingualism, World Literature, and the Return of History.” German Studies Review 41.3 (2018). 457-463.
(Co-authored) “The Fall, or the Rise, of Monolingualism?” German Studies Review 41.3 (2018). 487-503.
“The Germantown Calico Quilt.” Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene. Ed. Gregg Mitman, Robert Emmett, and Marco Armieri. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2018. Reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement.
“Franco Moretti, Satirist.” PMLA 132.3 (May 2017): 681-685.
(Co-authored) “Introduction to Un/Translatables.” Un/Translatables: New Maps for Germanic Literatures, ed. Bethany Wiggin and Catriona MacLeod. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2016. 3-23.
“Sister Marcella, Marie Christine Sauer (d.1752), and the Chronicle of the Sisters at Ephrata.” Mysticism and Reform, 1400-1750. Ed. Sara S. Poor and Nigel Smith. South Bend, Indiana: Notre Dame UP, 2015. 295-320.
“World Literature and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1701.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 49.2 (May 2013): 112-130.
“Globalization and the Work of Fashion in Early Modern German Letters.” Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies 11.2 (November 2011): 35-60.
“Gallant Women Students, Professors and Historians: Learning, Sex, and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of German Literature.” Women in German Yearbook 26 (2010): 1-24.
“‘For Each and Every House to Wish for Peace’: Christoph Saur’s High German Almanac on the Eve of the French and Indian War.” Empires of God: Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic. Ed. Linda K. Gregerson and Sue Juster. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 154-171, 295-302.
“The Geography of Fashionability: Drinking Coffee in Eighteenth-Century Leipzig.” Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies 46. 4 (November 2010): 315-329.
“Staging Shi’ites in Silesia: Andreas Gryphius’s Catherine von Georgien” German Quarterly 83.1 (Winter 2010): 1-18.