Heather Sullivan, Ph.D.

 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: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment, 2017.
• Special issue and Introduction of New German Critique, August 2016, volume 128: “The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: Post-Humanism or New Humanism?” Guest Co-Editors Heather I. Sullivan and Bernhard Malkmus.
• The Early History of Embodied Cognition from 1740-1920: The in German (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 Colloquia Germanica 44.2 (2011) on “Dirty Nature,” guest co-editors Heather I. Sullivan and Caroline Schaumann. (published 2014).
• Special issue of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 19.3 (2012) on “Material Ecocriticism: Dirt, Waste, Bodies, Food, and Other Matter,” guest co-editors Dana Phillips and Heather I. Sullivan, 445-447.
• Heather I. Sullivan, The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck's Early Works. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.
• In progress: monograph, The Dark Green: Plants, People, and Spores in the Anthropocene. (about 2/3 complete).

Essays, Introductions, and book Chapters:

• Essay for special volume on “Petrofictions” Heather I. Sullivan, “Petro-Texts, Plants, and People in the Anthropocene: The Dark Green,” in Green Letters 24.2 (2019), edited by Hannes Bergthaller, Christa Grewe-Volpp, and Sylvia Mayer.
• Essay, co-authored: Heather I. Sullivan and James Shinkle, “The Dark Green Ecology in the Early Anthropocene: Goethe’s Plants in Die Metamorphose and Triumph der Empfindsamkeit,” Goethe Yearbook 26 (2019), 143-62.
• Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, “Goethes Metamorphose der Pflanzen: Die Materie des Grünen,” Materie des Geistes, eds. Sieglinde Grimm & Roman Bartosch, Winter Verlag, 2018, 75-99.
• Chapter, Heather I. Sullivan, Goethes Concept of Nature: Proto-ecological Model,” in Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture, edited by Gabriele Dürbeck, Urte Stobbe, Hubert Zapf, and Evi Zemanek. Lanham: Lexington, 2017, 17-29.
• Invited essay: Heather I. Sullivan, “Goethe’s Colors: Revolutionary Optics and the Anthropocene,” Eighteenth Century Studies, 51.1 (2017), 115-24.
• Chapter co-authored, Caroline Schaumann and Heather I. Sullivan, “Hybrid Environments in the Anthropocene: Recent Fiction,” in 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, “The Dark Pastoral: A Trope for the Anthropocene” for my co-edited volume with Caroline Schaumann, German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 25-44.
• Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, “The Materiality and Ecology of Blue: Goethe and Jeannette Schäring,” invited for Swedish volume, Matter in Motion and the Mysticism of Nature’s Colour: The Art of Jeanette Schäring, edited by Frødi Lazlo, Sjöbackevägen, Sweden: Förlaget 284, 2017, 242-252.
• Magazine essay: Heather I. Sullivan, “Recent German Environmental Literature: Writing Environmental Change and Catastrophe,” World Literature Today March 2017: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/march/recent-german-environmental-literature-writing-environmental-change-and-catastrophe
• Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, “Material Ecocriticism and the Petro-Text” invited essay for The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. Eds. Ursula K. Heise, Jon Christensen, and Michelle Niemann. London: Routledge, 2017, 414-423.
• Introduction: Co-authored, Heather I. Sullivan and Bernhard Malkmus for special volume of New German Critique 128 (August 2016), “The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: An Introduction.”
• Essay: Heather I. Sullivan, “Threatening Animals” essay for special volume of Relations: Beyond Anthropocentrism on “Past the Human: Narrative Ontologies and Ontologies Stories: Part I,” edited by Serenella Iovino, 4.1 (2016), 39-52.
• Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, “Agency in the Anthropocene: Goethe, Radical Reality, and the New Materialisms,” in The Early History of Embodied Cognition from 1740-1920: The by John McCarthy, Stephanie Hilger, Nicholas Saul, and Heather I. Sullivan, Leiden: Rodopi/Brill, 2016.
• Essay: Heather I. Sullivan, “The Dark Pastoral: Goethe and Atwood” in special volume on the Pastoral in Green Letters 19.4 (2015): 1-13.
• Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, “Materialism Ecocriticism,” in German volume Ecocriticism: Eine Einführung, edited by Gabriele Dürbeck and Urte Stobbe. Cologne, Germany: Böhlau, 2015, 57-67.
• Essay: Heather I. Sullivan, “Nature and the ‘Dark Pastoral’ in Goethe’s Werther.” Goethe Yearbook 22 (2015): 115-132. (Awarded a 2016 annual essay prize from the Goethe Society of North America.)
• Co-authored essay, Gabriele Dürbeck, Caroline Schaumann and Heather I. Sullivan, “Human and non-human Agencies: The Anthropocene, Material Ecocriticism, and the Contributions of Literature.” Ecozon@ 6.1 (2015): 118-136.
  • TRANSLATION into Korean of this essay for the Korean-language book, Ilryuse: Jomang goa Jeonmang (The Anthropocene: Perspectives and Prospects), with DDWorld in Seoul, December 2016.
• Essay: Heather I. Sullivan, “Dirty Traffic and the Dark Pastoral in the Anthropocene: Narrating Refugees, Deforestation, Radiation, and Melting Ice,” Literatur für Leser 37.2 (2014): 83-97. (pub. 2015).
• Chapter: Heather I. Sullivan, “The Ecology of Color: Goethe’s Materialist Optics and Ecological Posthumanism,” in Material Ecocriticism; eds. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014; 80-94.