Community Letter | February 2026

• Kimberly Fung, "FIELDWORK IN-BETWEEN: WALKING AND CUTTING GRASS IN JAPAN’S POST-MINING LANDSCAPE"

• Evelyn Ramiel, “SEX IS A HISTORY: A REVIEW OF PERFORMANCE ALL THE WAY DOWN BY RICHARD O. PRUM”

We’re thrilled to welcome Katie Kung to the Executive Team! Katie is the Executive Content Editor at EHN. She is a PhD candidate in Environmental Humanities at the Rachel Carson Centre, LMU Munich. She works in the intersection of environmental humanities, STS, and political ecology. Her research examines violent care, ecological visions, and the concept of invasive species–viewing it as a reflection of manifold multispecies relationships. She is a lecturer in environmental humanities and conservation history. We asked Katie about her environment this month.

I am now living in the Heidelberg-Mannheim area of Germany. I live in the city center, which is something that weirdly comforts me since I grew up in Hong Kong. It is counterintuitive, but being in nature sometimes feels like work, since I think about things in environmental humanities all day long. Every summer, it gets scarily warmer and warmer here, and, of course, the city is not designed to handle heat waves.

I am loving dinner parties these days! I love cooking, and before I started my PhD, I actually wanted to go to culinary school... but COVID happened. I try to host a dinner party now and then (maybe once every two months) so I can cook and try out some new plating techniques, while also spending some quality time with friends in a more intimate setting.

Getting to know my new cat Berlioz.. Putting my notes together and finishing the PhD (in a year’s time?)... More dinner parties... A better work-life-sports balance... There are also quite a few ideas with the new EHN team and I am excited to see how they all unfold!

See you next month for more environmental history, now!