Theresa Sambruno Spannhoff

Fellow, von der Heyden Global Fellows 2025-26

Theresa Sambruno Spannhoff is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, a joint doctoral program between Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currently in the fourth year of the program, Theresa is writing the first chapter of her dissertation, tentatively titled "Refuge and its Literary Imagination in the Anthropocene." Her research focuses on contemporary German-language science fiction and ecocriticism, engaging with posthumanist discourse and its intersections with ecology, gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial studies, and refugee studies.