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
Empirical ecocriticism investigates the influence of environmental narratives (across a wide variety of media) on their audiences. We think of it as a fruitful commingling of existing fields of study, such as traditional ecocriticism, ecomedia, the empirical study … 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
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 8, 2024
Race, Risk, and Resilience in Narratives of Climate (De)gentrification
Keynote (online) at the 19th Cultural Studies Symposium on “Risk Narratives” at Ege University.
Izmir, Turkey
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May 10, 2024
Food for Thought: Decolonizing Bodies and Diets in … 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
I am a writer and an ecocritical literary and media scholar. My interdisciplinary research explores contemporary environmental culture from a cognitive perspective with a particular focus on affect and emotion. I have a special interest in climate change (non)fiction, environmental … Read more