Dr. Heidi Hart

Editorial Board Member

Dr. Heidi Hart is an independent researcher and guest instructor at Linnaeus University (Sweden). She is an arts researcher, educator, and practitioner based in Scandinavia and in North Carolina, US, with a focus on sound and music in environmental art. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in German Studies from Duke University (2016). Her doctoral work on music as resistance under National Socialism has led to further applications in environmental humanities and populism studies. Heidi’s grants and awards include an ACLS-Mellon fellowship and a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She has published monographs on Hanns Eisler’s activist art songs and on music in climate-crisis narrative, as well as numerous articles on sound in environmental art, film, and literature. Her book Climate Thanatology appeared in 2022, and she has a forthcoming book with Beate Schirrmacher, De-composing the Piano (Art after Nature series, University of Minnesota Press). This book has resulted from the research project “Instruments of Repair”  through the Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden, where Heidi is also a guest instructor. https://www.heidihart.one