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Ancient Environment,
Comparative Literature,
Contemporary Literature,
Environmental History,
Environmental Humanities/Literature and the Environment,
Environmental Sociology,
Environmental Studies,
Romanticism,
Sociology of the Environment,
Twentieth-Century Literature,
UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Biography
Kate Rigby is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Environmental Humanities and Director of the research hub for Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities at the University of Cologne, Germany. One of the world's foremost ecocritics, she was the founding President of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Australia-New Zealand). Her previous books include Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004) and Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times (2015).