Mit großer Freude können @joelalala.bsky.social nun sagen: Es ist vollbracht! Pflanzen: Kulturwissenschaftliches Handbuch ist im Verlag J. B. Metzler erschienen!
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.
Free webinar from The Plant Initiative @theplantinitiative.bsky.social Perspectives on Plants: From Phytopoetics to Networking in Community, a conversation with Dr. Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social, Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12-1 pm CT. www.eventbrite.com/e/perspectiv...
Perspectives on Plants: From Phytopoetics to Networking in Community
Join Dr. Joela Jacobs in a free online conversation about the growing community of interest in plants in the academic world and beyond
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Plants & Place: Cultivating Un/Belonging through Vegetal Tropes, posting by Joela Jacobs @joelalala.bsky.social, traces "how botanical metaphors from Humboldt’s ecological observations to modern political rhetoric shape powerful & sometimes dangerous narratives" cswr.hds.harvard.edu/publications...
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Big news: issue 3.1 marks John C. Ryan’s last as editor for Plant Perspectives. Thank you to John for all your work establishing PP and a very warm welcome to Joela Jacobs (@joelalala.bsky.social) who takes over as editor 🌱 More in the blog: whitehorsepress.blog/2026/03/17/p...
Do you teach/research gender/sexuality w/ German sources? Have you had access issues or needed to translate sources yourself bc English versions don’t exist? Fill in this survey (by 2/15) to identify core texts for an anthology of translations in scientific & literary sexology between 1890 & 1930.
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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
Wie Feedback geben und wie Feedback bekommen? @joelalala.bsky.social und ich haben einen Guide erarbeitet, der bei @ddgc.bsky.social frei zugänglich ist (Deu&Eng): www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/be... Danke an alle, die uns unterstützt haben - inbesondere Isabel von Holt für die Übersetzung.
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
#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.
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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
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!
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...