Ursula Heise

Ursula K. Heise (* 1960 ) is a German literary scholar .

Career

Heise studied at the University of Cologne initially Romance and went after her intermediate examination in 1981/82 with a DAAD scholarship at the University of Lyon II . She then took an intermediate examination in English Philology and went to the University of California, Santa Barbara , in 1983/84, again as a DAAD scholarship holder . There she acquired an MA in 1985 , followed by a master's degree in Romance studies in Cologne in 1987. Heise then received a doctoral scholarship to Stanford University , where she received her PhD in literary theory in 1993 and taught there as a professor of comparative literature until 2012 . Since 2012 she has been a professor in the Department of English at the University of California .

In 2011 Heise received a Guggenheim Fellowship .

Works (selection)

Monographs

• Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2016, ISBN 978-0-226-35816-1 .
• After Nature: Species Extinction and Modern Culture . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-26034-0 .
• Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global . Oxford University Press, New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-533563-7 .
• Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism . Cambridge University Press (Literature, Culture, Theory # 23), Cambridge 1997, ISBN 978-0-521-55544-9 .

Editing

• (with Jon Christensen and Michelle Niemann): The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities . London, New York: Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978-1-317-66019-4 .

Web links

• Short CV (Engl.)
• Personal Web site (English).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Bio - Ursula K. Heise. Retrieved July 26, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Heise, Ursula K. - Department of English UCLA. In: UCLA English. Retrieved July 26, 2020 (English).