Judith Rauscher is assistant professor (Juniorprofessorin) of American Literature and Culture at the Universität zu Köln. She holds an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College, an M.A. in English and American Studies and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Her research focuses on contemporary American poetry, ecocriticism, Mobility Studies, American speculative fiction, and Gender Studies.

»On the whole, the book offers both students and scholars a meticulous and excellent approach to the concepts and debates within environmental literature and ecocriticism. Moreover, »Ecopoetics and Place-Making« is an auspicious inauguration for the series, and it is more than fair to look forward to reading the books that will follow.«