Solvejg Nitzke is a postdoctoral scholar at Technische Universität Dresden in Germany. She was part of the DFG-funded project “Climate’s Time” at the University of Vienna and earned her doctorate at Ruhr-University Bochum in 2015 with a thesis on the Tunguska-Event (“Die Produktion der Katastrophe. Das Tunguska-Ereignis und die Programme der Moderne” transcript 2017). Her current research project “Precarious Nature” examines proto-ecological knowledge in 19th century country-literatures. She works on disaster and science fiction, the intersection of story-telling and knowledge production and ecological thought. Her work on plants focuses on trees and their relationship with and agency in story-telling, she is working on a book-project called Making Kin with Trees and the collection Baum und Text (in German) will be published in spring 2020.