Heather I. Sullivan is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Trinity University in Texas, USA. She is co-editor with Caroline Schaumann of German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene (2017); and co-editor of The Early History of Embodied Cognition from 1740-1920 (2016); author of The Intercontexuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck’s Early Works (1997), and co-editor of special journal issues on ecocriticism in the New German Critique (2016); Colloquia Germanica (2014), and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment (2012). She has published widely in North American and European journals on ecocriticism and the Anthropocene, Goethe, German Romanticism, petro-texts, the “dark pastoral,” the “dark green,” and literature and science. Sullivan is also the 2016 recipient of Trinity University’s highest award, the Z.T. Scott Outstanding Teaching and Advising Fellowship, and the annual Goethe Society of North America essay award in 2016. She is currently working on a book project on the Dark Green: Plants, Spores, and Humans in the Anthropocene. Sullivan is the Vice President of the North American Goethe Society and also serves the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment both as Professional Liaison Coordinator and as the Chair of the Translation Grants Committee.