EXECUTIVE Board 2026
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, President
José Manuel Marrero Henríquez(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria); areas of interest: Ecopoetics, Literary Theory, Hispanic Literatures, Creative writing.
Christa Grewe – Volpp, Vice President
Christa Grewe-Volpp, University of Mannheim (now retired), areas of interest: American literature and culture, ecocriticism and ecofeminism, critical animal and plant studies, new materialism.
Matthias Klestil, Treasurer
Matthias Klestil (University of Innsbruck, Department of American Studies, Austria); areas of interest: American studies, environmental humanities, ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, environmental justice, narrative theory
Advisory Board 2026
Reinhard Hennig
(University of Agder, Department of Nordic and Media Studies, Norway); areas of interest: Scandinavian studies, ecocriticism, environmental change in history and literature, the Anthropocene, contemporary literature from Northern Europe, Old Norse literature and culture.
Kári Driscoll
(Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University); areas of interest: animal studies, zoopoetics, biopolitics, zoos, imagining more-than-human communities, multispecies justice.
Chang Liu/刘倡
(Heidelberg University); areas of interest:Environmental racism, cultures of automobility, music and the environment, energy humanities.
Sibylle Machat
(Europa-Universität Flensburg, Seminar für Anglistik &; Amerikanistik, Germany); areas of interest: American studies, ecocriticism, the Anthropocene, teaching Global Education & Sustainable Development in primary schools, business studies and/as cultural studies.
Sylvia Mayer
Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth, Germany) areas of Interest: American Studies;
environmental humanities; environmental risk and resilience fiction, climate fiction
Peter Mortensen, PhD
(Associate Professor – Aarhus University, Denmark); areas of interest: 19th- and 20th-century British and American literatures and cultures;
romanticism, transcendentalism, modernism and postmodernism; literary interrelations among Britain, the USA, Europe and Scandinavia; ecology, ecocriticism, environmentalism and climate change discourses.
Lena Pfeifer
(University of Würzburg, Germany); areas of interest: American Studies; ecocriticism; 20th- and 21st-century environmental writing; Anthropocene narratives; literary form; environmental ethics.
Caroline Durand-Rous
(University of Nîmes, Department of American Cultural Studies and
Environmental Humanities); areas of interest: Native American studies, ecopoetics,
material ecocriticism, animal studies, postcolonial studies, ecoanthropology.
Stefano Rozzoni
(University of Bergamo, Italy); Areas of interest: Literary and cultural studies; English studies; Ecocriticism; Ecopoetic; Posthumanism; Ethics; Digital environmental humanities; Narratives and economic discourse; Literature and education;
Anna Seidel
(University of Vienna, Institute for Slavonic Studies, Austria); areas of interest: Slavic literatures and cultures, energy humanities, gender studies, posthuman studies, urban studies, petrocultures
![Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez](https://www.easlce.eu/wp-content/uploads/forminator/38781_481d633e98286b20d73a20fd2bc5fbbe/uploads/e8LQTk0nCYvC-escritos-antibelicos.jpg "EASLCE – Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez")
