Eva Horn is a professor of modern German literature and cultural theory at the University of Vienna. She has taught in Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, and the US. Her areas of research include literary and cultural history from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, namely political theory, media theory, disaster imagination in the modern age, historical conceptions of climate, and, most recently, the Anthropocene. She is the founder and director of the Vienna Anthropocene Network. Eva Horn is the author of The Secret War: Treason, Espionage, and Modern Fiction (Northwestern University Press, 2013), The Future as Catastrophe (Columbia University Press, 2018), and together with Hannes Bergthaller: The Anthropocene – Key Issues for the Humanities (Routledge, 2020). She is currently working on a book manuscript on “Being in the air. A cultural theory of climate.”