Veronika Kratz

Assistant Professor

M.A. & Ph.D., Carleton University
B.A.S, University of Guelph

Office: Griffin 331
E-mail: veronika.kratz@louisiana.edu

Pronouns: she/her

Teaching and Research Areas

Ecocriticism and environmental humanities, science in literature and culture, 20th and 21st century American literature, science fiction, literary geography, interdisciplinary studies

Noteworthy

Veronika’s work engages in cultural analyses of the scientific concepts through which humans relate to the environment, and especially to environmental crisis. She is a settler scholar working at the intersection of US literary and cultural studies and the environmental humanities more broadly. Her work has appeared in ISLE and MOSF Journal of Science Fiction among other places, including the recent edited collection Storied Deserts: Re-Imagining Global Arid Lands (Routledge 2024).

Her current projects include the monograph A Drought with No End: The Cultural Life of Desertification, which is under contract with Texas Tech University Press, and a chapter on early representations of ecology in postwar science fiction stories for the Liverpool Handbook of Environmental Science Fiction.