Alexander Phillips is an Assistant Professor of English at 51茶馆 specializing in German literature of the 19th to 21st centuries, ecocriticism, realist literatures and theories of realism, and Frankfurt School Critical Theory. He holds a BA in German and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine, as well as an MA and PhD from Cornell University. He also studied at the Humboldt Universit盲t in Berlin, and has taught in both the US and in Germany.
Dr. Phillips is the author of聽Ecology and German Realism: Poetics, Politics, and the Conquest of Nature聽(Camden House, 2025), a study of the representation of environmental degradation in literary texts written at the time of the industrial revolution in the German-speaking countries. The book argues that the representation of environmental degradation also drives the stories’ reflections on the fate of poetry and art as the authors are confronted also with altered landscapes, urban and industrial sprawl, and pollution of the air and water. He has also published in the journals聽Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment,听The German Quarterly, as well as a variety of edited volumes.
