Age Studies and Ecocriticism

Addressing the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility.

Age Studies and Ecocriticism in Dialogue

Our research explores how aging and climate change intersect in cultural representations—both shaped by questions of care, vulnerability, resilience, and responsibility. Bringing aging studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the material turn into dialogue, we examine how literature and culture imagine intergenerational connections, endings, and survival in the Anthropocene. This interdisciplinary approach opens new ways of understanding the entanglement of human and nonhuman life in a changing world.

The Eco-Age Research Group—founded by Nassim Balestrini, Julia Hoydis, and Ulla Kriebernegg—continues this collective exploration.