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LATEST ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Weik von Mossner, Alexa 2023. “Tracing Loss in Times of Rapid Climate Change: Figures of Absence in Omar El Akkad’s American War.” English Studies.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa, W.P. Malecki, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Marcus Mayorga, and Paul Slovic. 2023. “The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’” In Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change, edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder. 2023. “Introduction: Toward an Integrated Approach to Environmental Narratives and Social Change.” In Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change, edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2023. “Feeling Wild: The Mediation of Embodied Experience.” In The Routledge Handbook of Ecomedia Studies, edited by Antonio Lopez, Alenda Chang, Kiu-Wai Chu, Stephen Rust, Miriam Tola, and Adrian Ivakhiv. New York: Routledge.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2023. “The Power of Love: Reading The Silver Linings Playbook as Romantic Neuronovel,” In Power in Language, Culture, Literature and Education: Perspectives of English Studies, edited by Marta Degani and Werner Delanoy, 149-165. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022. “Nourishment for the Mind: Narrating Indian Food as Cultural Memory.” Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities, edited by Donald Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian and Don Tucker. New York: Routledge.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022. “Ecology and Emotion: Feeling Narrative Environments.” In The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion, edited by Patrick Colm Hogan, Lalita Pandit Hogan, and Bradley Irish, 192-202. New York and London: Routledge.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022. “Climate on Screen: From Doom and Disaster to Ecotopian Visions.” In The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, edited by Kelly Sultzbach and Adeline Johns-Putra, 162-176. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022. “Introduction: Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures.” In Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology, edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill. New York and London: Routledge.

Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2022. “Stories, Love, and Baklava: Narrating Food in Diana Abu Jaber’s Culinary Memoirs.” In Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology., edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill, 133-148. New York and London: Routledge.

Małecki, W.P., Alexa Weik von Mossner, Piotr Sorokowski, and Tomasz Frackowiak. 2021. “Extinction Stories Matter: The Impact of Narrative Representations of Endangered Species Across Media.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment . https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isab094

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.

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LATEST ACADEMIC BOOKS

Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change

Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder.

Empirical Ecocriticism provides an approachable introduction to this growing field’s main methods and demonstrates their potential through case studies on topics ranging from the impact of climate fiction on readers’ willingness to engage in activism to the political empowerment that results from participating in environmental theater. MORE

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Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology

Edited by Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikic, and Mario Grill

Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology explores the relationship between narrative, race, and ethnicity in the United States. Situated at the intersection of post-classical narratology and context-oriented approaches in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, the contributions to this edited volume interrogate the complex and varied ways in which ethnic American authors use narrative form to engage readers in issues related to race and ethnicity. MORE

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LATEST FICTION

FRAGILE – A NOVEL

In a near-future ravaged by climate change, a man tasked with keeping New York City alive falls for a woman determined to protect its most vulnerable creatures.

New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, privileged Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving while the eastern boroughs have been given up to the hurricanes and the rising Atlantic. But no one is safe in a world of cascading disasters causing a global scarcity of medical drugs, food, and other essentials for survival. MORE

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UPCOMING TALKS

September 28, 2023

“Empirical Ecocriticism: Studying the Impact of Environmental Narratives”

Invited talk in the English Department at the University of Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

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October 26, 2023

“Love in the Times of Climate Change: Romance and the Cli-fi Imagination”

Invited talk (online) including a discussion of my novel, Fragile, at the University of the Balearic Islands

Palma, Spain

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October 30, 2023

“Troubling Futures: The Hazards and Uses of (Writing) Climate Fiction”

Invited talk including a discussion of my novel, Fragile, in the English Department at the University of Bern

Bern, Switzerland

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November 9, 2023

Discussion of my novel, Fragile, with the Contemporary Literature Book Club in the Department of English at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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November 14, 2023

“Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice”

Invited talk at the LitCult Colloquium at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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April 19, 2024

Keynote at the CUSO Workshop “The Ethics of Consumption: Advocacy, Activism, Academia” at the University of Geneva.

Geneva, Switzerland

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May 8-10, 2024

Keynote (online) at the 19th Cultural Studies Symposium on “Risk Narratives” at Ege University.

Izmir, Turkey

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May 22-24, 2024

Keynote (online) at the Third International Environmental Humanities Conference focused on “Ecocriticisms in the 21s Century” at Cappadocia University

Cappadocia, Turkey

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