COMPLETED PROJECTS
This page provides information on research projects that are already completed.
NARRATIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH ETHNIC AMERICAN LITERATURES (2018 – 2022)
Cognitive approaches to cultural texts are increasingly gaining currency in contemporary debates in literary and cultural studies; yet … Read more
NARRATIVE ENCOUNTERS WITH ETHNIC AMERICAN LITERATURES
2018 – 2022
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Cognitive approaches to cultural texts are increasingly gaining currency in contemporary debates in literary and cultural studies; yet they have often been criticized for … Read more
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS – Forthcoming
Drafts of all of the manuscripts below have been completed and are awaiting publication.
Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice
Growing Hope takes a closer look at how nonfiction narratives of food justice can carry the … Read more
AFFECTIVE ECOLOGIES
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative
Affective Ecologies was published by the Ohio State University Press in May 2017. You can visit the publisher’s website here.
From the blurb:
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative… Read more
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change
Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder. Forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze … Read more
FEEDING THE SENSES: NARRATING FOOD ACROSS MEDIA
This page provides updates on my ongoing research project Feeding the Senses: Narrating Food across Media
Feeding the Senses extends cognitive ecocritical analysis to a range of media beyond literature and film, and … Read more
May 21, 2024
Studying Affective Ecologies: Emotional Engagement and Narrative Impact
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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June 14, 2024
Unintentional Communities: Narratives of … Read more
LECTURE CLASSES
American Culture: History and Society
Survey of Anglophone Literatures: Focus America
History of American Film
Introduction to Film Studies
Anglophone Cultures in Context (with René Schalleger)
Contested Nature: Film and Ecological Conflict (with Patrick Kupper)
SEMINARS
Intermediality
The … Read more
My current research focuses primarily on the emotional and affective dimensions of environmental storytelling and is rooted in an approach that draws ecocriticism and the environmental humanities into conversation with neuroscience, psychology and cognitive literary and film studies. You can … Read more
