Elliot Sturdy

Profile

My research area revolves around the question of how to conduct academic life in an age of ecological crisis. Inspired by the work of Corine Pelluchon, I am seeking a form of German Studies which aims towards the enlightenment of all beings within an ecology of relations. In this respect, academic life is not so much a question of how to become personally emancipated through learning, but rather of how to achieve a form of ecological justice and a revised form of consciousness which finds itself to be entangled within reciprocal forms of relationships that create kinships across different species.

My educational life began in Sweden and Finland, but I returned to England to do my PhD at Newcastle University under the supervision of Bernhard Malkmus.

I am currently involved in the Rewilding German Studies Project (2024-) and am always seeking new forms of ecological entanglement.

Research interests

My current focus is upon issues relating to the Environmental Humanities. In particular, I am interested in how the main theorists of Ecocriticism and Anthropocene Theory can be combined with German Philosophy in order to develop new perspectives. I am particularly interested in:

Stimmungen and Gernot Böhme

The Middle Voice and Rolf Elberfeld

Relationality

Hartmut Rosa and Resonance

Eco-Philology and Werner Hamacher

Wild Pedagogy

Qualifications

• PhD in German Literature (Newcastle University)
• MA in Literature (Uppsala University)
• BA in German (Uppsala University)

Professional memberships

• Association of German Studies in Britain and Ireland

Student education

I am currently teaching German and Comparative Literature.