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LATEST ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

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.

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.

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LATEST ACADEMIC BOOKS

Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative

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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Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology

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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UPCOMING TALKS

March 1-4, 2023

Invited respondent on the pre-formed panel “Affective Narratology: New Perspectives II,” organized by Ella Mingazova andTero Vanhanen, at the 2023 International Conference on Narrative

Dallas, Texas, USA

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March 23, 2023 (online)

Keynote at the 4th Annual “America in Media, Media in America” Conference at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University under the patronage of the Polish Rhetoric Society

Lublin, Poland

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April 25, 2023

Opening lecture Ringvorlesung Klima: Kulturen, Künste, Medien at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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May 25-27, 2023

Keynote at the Annual Conference of the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres – ECHIC, dedicated to Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing, at the University of Ferrara

Ferrara, Italy

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June 13-16, 2023
“From Cognitive Econarratology to Empirical Ecocriticism: Exploring Empathy and Emotion in Environmental Narrative”

Invited talk at the PhD-Seminar “Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and the Environment“ at the University of Agder

Kristiansand, Norway

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June 22-23, 2023

Keynote at the International Conference “’Where Do We Carry Home Now?’ Shifting Perceptions of Home,” at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES)

Lisbon, Portugal

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July 3, 2023

Podium discussion about my novel, Fragile, at the University of Bayreuth

Bayreuth, Germany

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July 9, 2023

Workshop “How to Do Empirical Ecocriticism”

Together with Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Wojciech Malecki, I will be leading a pre-conference workshop at the 2023 Biannual ASLE Conference in Portland.

Portland, Oregon, USA