Christine Gerhardt is a professor of American Studies at the University of Bamberg. She has published essays on Whitman, Dickinson, and ecocriticism in Profession, The Forum for Modern Language Studies, The Mississippi Quarterly, and The Emily Dickinson Journal. Her research and teaching interests include 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century American literature, environmental literature and literary criticism, American migration poetry, African American literature, and the literature and culture of the American South. She lives in Bamberg, Germany.