Molina Klingler is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of the Humanities, University of Wuerzburg (JMU) and holds a doctoral fellowship of the Heinrich-Böll-Stifgung. Currently, she works as a lecturer and assistant to the executive director of the German Association for American Studies. Her Ph.D. project "The Unalienable Right of Life: Multispecies Democracy and Speculative Writing" is located in the field of American studies and the environmental humanities. It explores the relation between the literary imagination, knowledge and environmental policy and politics from an ecocritical perspective. Her further research interests include narratology, biopolitics and law, and poetry. She graduated from JMU and the University of Eastern Illinois with an M.A. with distinction in American studies/German studies and completed a teaching degree ("Staatsexamen Gymnasium").