#  Joela Jacobs 

Associate Professor of German Studies, University of Arizona

 

 

 



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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).