ABOUT ME

I am an author and academic based in Berlin. My writing encompasses cultural history and criticism, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry. I am the author of The Unlively: Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel (Routledge, 2026), coauthor of Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023), which was selected for a 2023 Spotlight by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, and coeditor of a special issue of Somatechnics on “(Un)doing Data and Gender in the Life Sciences(Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Focusing on queer and feminist epistemologies, my research interests span environmental and medical humanities, science and technology studies, critical disability studies, and transnational American Studies. I teach regularly at Humboldt University of Berlin on the intersectional politics of ecology, health, disability, and gender. I was nominated for the 2026 Humboldt University of Berlin’s Award for Good Teaching and shortlisted for the 2027 Berlin State Teaching Award.

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ASLE SPOTLIGHT

Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023) documents over a decade of participatory urban ecology projects by Harmattan Theater, an environmental performance ensemble based in New York City. Co-authored by Harmattan’s founding director May Joseph and associate director Sofia Varino, Aquatopia offers a critical account of interspecies engagements with climate change, colonial histories, and public space in precarious water-bound sites.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE

Directed by May Joseph (2013)

Far Rockaway was performed by Harmattan Theater on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2013, at Tribute Park, a NYC public park built as a memorial tribute to the over three hundred firefighters who died in the World Trade Center in 2001. The Park was washed away by Hurricane Sandy. Harmattan performed at the Park to mark the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy on the Far Rockaway peninsular, particularly Beach 116, which was entirely destroyed by the storm surge.