Joela Jacobs

Joela Jacobs is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona and maintains the Literary & Cultural Plant Studies Network. Her research focuses on nineteenth to twenty-first-century German literature, plant and animal studies, environmental humanities, Jewish studies, the histories of sexuality, and science. Most recently, she co-edited Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-Matter (Punctum Books, 2023), and a special issue of Monatshefte on “Futurities of Remembrance: Gender, Memorial Practices, and the Third Generation after Second World War and Shoah.” She has a monograph: Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka (German Jewish Cultures) (Indiana University Press, March 2025).