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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2021. “Storie di una ‘Third Culture Kid’: Empatia, emozione e impegno politico nella narrativa di Pearl S. Buck.” Sguardi interculturali. Pearl S. Buck e la Cina, edited by Valeria Gennero, Maria Gottardo e Junwei Yao, 63-81. Verona: Ombre Corte.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2020. “Larger than Life: Endangered Animals across Media in Louie Psihoyos’s Racing Extinction.” Ekphrasis 24 (2): 19-35.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2020. “Popularizing Climate Change: Cli-Fi Film and Narrative Impact.” In Research Handbook in Communicating Climate Change, edited by David C. Holmes and Lucy M. Richardson. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and W.P. Małecki. 2020. “Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Texts and Empirical Methods.” Introduction to a thematic cluster of articles on “Empirical Ecocriticism,” guest-edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner and Wojciech Małecki, in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27 (2): 327-36.

Małecki, WP, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and Małgorzata Dobrowolska. 2020. “Narrating Human and Animal Oppression: Strategic Empathy and Intersectionalism in Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27 (2): 365-84.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2020. “Affect, Emotion, and Ecocriticism.” [email protected]: European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment 11 (2): 128-136.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2020. “Feeling Literary Environments: Econarratology, Embodiment, and Emotion.” In Environment and Narrative: New Directions in Econarratology, edited by Erin James and Eric Morel, 129-45. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2020. “Climate Change and the Dark Side of Translating Science into Popular Culture.” In The Dark Side of Translation, edited by Federico Italiano, 111-25. New York and London: Routledge.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2019. “Why We Care about (Non)fictional Places: Empathy, Character, and Narrative Environment.” Poetics Today 40 (3): 559-577.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2019. “Empathy, Emotion, and Environment in Alternative Australian Landscape Cinema: The Case of Rabbit-Proof Fence.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 3 (2): 245-65.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2019. “How We Feel about (Not) Eating Animals: Vegan Studies and Cognitive Ecocriticism.” In Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism, edited by Laura Wright, 28-47. Reno: U of Nevada Press.

A complete list of my publications is available here.

Forthcoming publications are listed here.

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LATEST BOOK

Affective Ecologies

Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. MORE

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UPCOMING TALKS AND LECTURES

May 13-15, 2021

“Just a Story? Science, Snakes, and Narratives in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island“
Invited talk at the Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies on “Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives” at the University of Oldenburg

Oldenburg, Germany

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July 1, 2021

Invited talk as part oft the “Environmental Humanities” Guest Lecture Series at the University of Konstanz

Konstanz, Germany

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September 22, 2021

Invited talk at the Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM) at the University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

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