Christopher Schliephake is a historian and postdoc scholar at the University of Augsburg, who specializes in the fields of cultural ecology, cultural memory studies, and classical reception studies. His publications include Urban Ecologies. City Space, Material Agency, and Environmental Politics in Contemporary Culture, published in the Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series by Lexington Books (Lanham, MD, 2015), as well as a number of articles ranging from the interplay of memory and place over the “New Materialism” to the reception of the classical tradition by African-American and Caribbean authors. He is currently working on a book project that explores the cultural and political reception of Alexander the Great in the Eastern parts of the British Empire. He is also completing a number of essays on “black classicism” and is preparing an edited volume that brings recent ecocritical theory and practice together with the classics and ancient history.
