Joela Jacobs is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of Ger­man at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ari­zona. Her research focus­es on inter­sec­tions of Jew­ish stud­ies and the Envi­ron­men­tal Human­i­ties with Ger­man lit­er­a­ture. She is cur­rent­ly work­ing on a mono­graph about the mod­ernist micro-genre of the Lit­er­ary Grotesque (die Groteske), which cri­tiques the insti­tu­tion­al­ized mar­gin­al­iza­tion of human and non-human life.