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Joela Jacobs
@joelalala.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of German Studies in Arizona, thinking about plants, animals, the environment, German Jewish identities, science, gender, and sexuality. Check out the Literary & Cultural Plant Studies Network.
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Ssve the Date:
Conference “The Many Meanings of Flora: Re-Evaluating the Aesthetics and Politics of Plants”, December 11-12, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Co-organized by my fantastic colleague Anita Hosseini and yours truly
November 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Over the summer, we are working on an exciting new initiative for the Umwelt Center: A wiki for key concepts in the Environmental Humanities & Germanic Studies!

We invite 750-1000 w. entries - for more details, see the call here:
germanic.osu.edu/umwelt-wiki

#envhum #environmentalhumanities
May 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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#newbook: "Plant Poetics. Literary Forms and Functions of the Vegetal" (ed. Joela Jacobs, Isabel Kranz, and Solvejg Nitzke).

More info: brill.com/display/titl...

#planthum #envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism @joelalala.bsky.social @isabelkranz.bsky.social @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social
Plant Poetics
"Plant Poetics" published on 19 May 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Das Buch über Pflanzenpoetik, das ich mit den besten Kolleginnen der Welt @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social @joelalala.bsky.social herausgeben durfte, ist soeben als E-Book erschienen:

brill.com/display/titl...
Plant Poetics
"Plant Poetics" published on 19 May 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
May 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
My heart is full today! I am grateful to everyone who could make it to my book launch. It was beautiful, and I feel so supported by my communities. I am also happy to share that I have been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. So much to celebrate!
April 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Dwelling in immense gratitude. Come to the launch party: cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
March 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Book launch of new book by Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka tinyurl.com/5n84t25r. Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 1pm PT. Online. Includes guest discussants + the author. Free. Register: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
February 20, 2025 at 10:19 AM