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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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. “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

September 25, 2020 (online)

“Sensing Nature in Novels: From Imagined Perception to Embodied Simulation”
Keynote at the International Workshop “Connecting the Dots: Conceptualising ‘Trace’ in the Nexus of Novels and Readers’ Sensory Imaginings,” Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Mainz, Germany

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October 10, 2020 (online)

“Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives”

EASLCE Webinar

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October 26, 2020 (online)

“Touching the Senses: Embodiment, Emotion, and Immersion”
Keynote at the Immersivity and Technological Innovations Conference

Montréal, Canada

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November 7, 2020 (online)

“Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives”

EASLCE Webinar (repeat due to high level of interest)

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November 27, 2020 (online)

Invited speaker at “The Ecological Imperative” Conference at the University of Berne

Berne, Switzerland

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December 15, 2020 (online)

Invited participant in discussion session on Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide as part of the Goodreads Project at The Arctic University of Norway

Tromsø, Norway

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