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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2021. “Screening Veganism: The Production, Rhetoric, and Reception of Vegan Advocacy Films.” In The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, edited by Laura Wright. New York and London: Routledge.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2021. “Feeling Bad? Veganism, Climate Change, and the Rhetoric of Cowspiracy.” In Veg(etari)an Arguments in Culture, History, and Practice: The V Word, edited by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch and Kristin Kondrlik. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2021. “From Mindbombs to Firebombs: The Narrative Strategies of Radical Environmental Activism Documentaries.” Special Issue on “The Rhetoric of Ecology in Visual Culture,” edited by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz and Anna Bendrat. Res Rhetorica 8 (2): 21-37.

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.

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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 22, 2021

Affective Encounters: The Medialization of Ecological Knowledge

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

Innsbruck, Austria

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October 6, 2021 (online)

Conversation with Dan Philippon on contemporary developments in the environmental humanities as part of the 2021 Transatlantic Conversations series on “Science, Technology and Innovation for a Sustainable Future” organized by the Austrian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, in cooperation with the Austrian Embassy’s Office of Science and Technology

Berkeley, USA

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October 14-17, 2021

A Glacial Pace? Mountain Cinema and the Imagination of Climate Change

Keynote at the Mountains & Cinema Conference at the University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

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November 18-21, 2021

Keynote at the International Conference Crises: Climate and Critique in the Literature and Arts of the English-Speaking World after 1800 at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle

Paris, France

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December 3, 2021