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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

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.

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.

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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A complete list of my academic publications is available here.

Forthcoming academic publications are listed here.

My fiction publications are listed here.

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LATEST 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 AND LECTURES

September 12-15, 2022

“Creaturely Encounters and Intersectionality: Understanding the Narrative Impact of Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’”

Conference paper at the Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) at the University of Granada

Granada, Spain

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October 21-23, 2022

Keynote at the Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) on “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” at the University of Salzburg

Salzburg, Austria

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November 18-19, 2022

“Of Horses and Humans: Narrative Agency and Intersectionality in Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue'”

Invited talk at the Swiss Association of American Studies (SANAS) at the University of Fribourg

Fribourg, Switzerland