Selected Books:
2023: Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction, New York: Orbis Books. (Awarded Honourable Mention in Faith and Science category of the 2024 Catholic Media Association Awards. & Shortlisted for 2024 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.)
2023: Religion, Materialism and Ecology, co-edited with Sigurd Bergmann and Peter Manley Scott, London: Routledge.
2020: Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization, London: Bloomsbury Academic
2015: Dancing with Disaster: Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times, Charlottesville: U of Virginia P.
2011: Ecocritical Theory: New European Perspectives, co-edited with Axel Goodbody, Charlottesville: U of Virginia P.
2004: Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism, Charlottesville: U of Virginia P.
1996: Transgressions of the Feminine. Tragedy, Enlightenment and the Figure of Woman in Classical German Drama, Heidelberg: Winter, “Reihe Siegen”.
Out of the Shadows. Contemporary German Feminism, co-authored with Silke Beinssen-Hesse, Melbourne: MUP, "Interpretations" series.
Refereed journal articles (last 10 years):
2025: Libby Robin, Amanda Wells, Claudia Leal, Joana Baço, Cristina Brito, Patricia Carvalho, Susanna Lidström, Tirza Meyer, Ursula Münster, Kate Rigby, Sandra Swart and Nina Vieira, “Transdisciplinary Histories and the Rise of the Environmental Humanities,” Global Environment 18: 138–172, https://doi.org/10.3828/whpge.63837646622515
2024: Thom van Dooren, Drew Rooke, Zoë Sadokierski, Natalie Osborne, Bethany Wiggin, Marco Armiero, Stephen Muecke, Emily O’Gorman, Joni Adamson, Sebastián Ureta, Jennifer Deger, Yen-Ling Tsai, Cameron Muir, Kirsten Wehner, Matthew Kearnes, Peter Minter, and Kate Rigby, “Developing the Public Environmental Humanities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons,” Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities 11.2-3: 6-44 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/953845
2022: "On the Ecopoetics of Temporal Discernment" commissioned by T. Middleton and N. Chawla (eds) for special issue on "The Humanities in Deep Time" of Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 26: 249–259. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685357-tat00003
2020: Owain Jones, Kate Rigby, Linda Williams, “Everyday Ecocide, Toxic Dwelling, and the Inability to Mourn: A Response to Geographies of Extinction,” Environmental Humanities 12:1, pp. 388–405. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-8142418
2019: “Weaving the Environmental Humanities: Australian strands, configurations, and provocations”, Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 23.1, special issue on the Environmental Humanities, ed. Graham Huggan, pp. 5-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2019.1578250
“Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices” (lead authors E. O’Gorman, T. Van Dooren, U. Münster, with J. Adamson, C. Mauch, S. Sörlin, M. Armieri, K. Lidström, D. Houston, J. A. Pádua, O. Jones, J. Motion, S. Muecke, Chia-Ju Chang, Shuyuan Lu, Christopher Jones, Lesley Green, Frank Matose, Hedley Twiddle, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Dolly Jørgensen), Environmental Humanities 11.12, pp. 427-460.
2016: “Of Mice and Men and Surging Seas: Discerning Distributed Agency in Storm’s Der Schimmelreiter” commissioned by Heather Sullivan and Bernhard Malkmus for ecocritical special issue of New German Critique No. 128, pp. 153-176.
2015: “Art, Nature, and the Poesy of Plants in the Goethe-Zeit: A Biosemiotic Perspective,” commissioned for a special ecocritical segment of the Goethe Yearbook 22.1, ed. Luke Fischer and Dalia Nassar, pp. 23-44.
2014: “Mapping Common Ground: Ecocriticism, Environmental History, and the Environmental Humanities,” (co-authored with Hannes Bergthaller, Rob Emmett, Adeline Johns-Putra, Agnes Kneitz,Susanna Lidström, Shane McCorristine, Isabel Pérez Ramos, Dana Phillips, Libby Robin) Environmental Humanities 5, pp. 261-271.
“Changing the Intellectual Climate,” Nature Climate Change 4, pp. 763-768 Volume:(co-authored with Noel Castree, lead author, et al).
Selected Book Chapters (last 10 years):
2025: “Behold! The Equivocal Ecopoetics of Wonder in Late Ancient Homilies on Creation” commissioned by Laura Borghetti and Thomas Arentzen for Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 87-102.
2024: “Oceanic Extinctions and the Dread of the Deep” commissioned by Stefan Skrimshire and Jeremy Kidwell for Extinction and Religion, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 213-246 Open access: https://publish.iupress.indiana.edu/read/extinction-and-religion/section/5bc0807b-a208-4a8b-b510-4c0d706a8876
2023: “Sympoesie. Potentiation, Conviviality and Collaboration in Romantic Ecopoetics”, in R. Borgards, F. Middelhof and B. Thums (eds) Romantische Ökologien. Vielfältige Naturen um 1800, Heidelberg: Metzler, 207-224.
2022: “Roadkill: Multispecies Mobilities and Everyday Ecocide” (with Owain Jones), in Thom Van Dooren and Matthew Chrulew (eds) Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose, Duke University Press, 112-134.
2020: “From German Studies to Environmental Humanities (and back again): A Journey Across Continents and Disciplines,” in James Hodkinson and Benedict Anderson (eds) German in the World: Transnational and Global Contexts of German Studies, New York: Camden House, 155-169.
2019: “ ‘Piping in their honey dreams‘: Towards a Creaturely Ecopoetics“, in F. Middelhof, S. Schönbeck, R. Borgards and C. Gersdorf (eds), Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics, Freiburg i.B.: Rombach, 281-295.
2018: “ ‘So ist’s mit aller Bildung’: Bildung als kommunikatives ,Mit-Werden‘,” in R. Bartosch and S. Grimm (eds), Die Materie des Geistes: Der material turn im Kontext von Bildungs-und Literaturgeschichte um 1800, Heidelberg: Winter, 101-120.
“Feathering the Multispecies Nest: Green Cities, Convivial Spaces,” in S. M. Müller and A. Mattissek (eds), Green City: Explorations and Visions of Urban Sustainability, edited by, RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society, 73–80.
2017: ‘“Mines aren’t really like that’: German Romantic Undergrounds Revisited,” in Heather S. and C. Schaumann, German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 111-28.
“Deep Sustainability,” in L. Squire, J. Parham and A. Johns-Putra, Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture, Manchester: Manchester UP, 52-75.
“Nature, Language, and Religion: Herder and Beyond,” in G. Duerbeck, U. Stobbe, H. Zapf and E. Zemanek, Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture, Lanham: Lexington Books, 31-42.
2016: “Religion and Ecology: Towards a Communion of Creatures,” in S. Iovino and S. Oppermann (eds), Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene, London: Rowman and Littlefield, 273-294.
“Earth’s Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics,” in H. Zapf, Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, Berlin: De Gruyter, 45-64.
2014: " 'Come forth into the light of things': Material Spirit and Negative Ecopoetics" in G. C. Stallings, M. Asensi and C. Good (eds), Material Spirit: Religion and Literature Intranscendent. New York: Fordham UP, 111-128.
“Confronting Catastrophe: Ecocriticism in a Warming World,” in L. Westling (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Environment, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 212-25.
“Romanticism and Ecocriticism” in G. Garrard (ed.), Handbook of Ecocriticism. Oxford: OUP, 60-79.
“Animal Calls” in S. D. Moore, Divinanimality: Animal Theory, Creaturely Theology. New York: Fordham UP, 116-31.