Seeing the Woods, the blog of The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, published a post, “Why Ecocriticism Needs the Social Sciences (and Vice Versa).” Written by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Małecki, and Frank Hakemulder, …
In the Spring 2020 issue of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and W.P. Małecki edited a thematic cluster of articles dedicated to introducing empirical ecocriticism.
The introduction to the …
The journal This Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, published once a year by Oxford University Press, reports on the some of the most important publications and developments in literary and cultural criticism. In the recently-published 2018 version, …
We are pleased to announce that empirical ecocriticism has been recognized as an Emerging Research Coalition by the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature (IGEL). IGEL Research Coalitions are groups of researchers concerned with specific topics in …
Since its origin, ASLE has asserted that narratives — stories, whether in literature, film, art, or other media — are of central importance to our relationships with other humans and nonhumans as well as the broader environment. However, in their …
Workshop Report (14–15 December 2018, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany)
By Alexa Weik von Mossner and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
On 14 and 15 December 2018, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society hosted the workshop Empirical Ecocriticism. Empirical …
Climate fiction—literature explicitly focused on climate change—has exploded over the last decade, and is often assumed to have a positive ecopolitical influence by enabling readers to imagine potential climate futures and persuading them of the gravity and urgency of climate …
Human Minds and Animal Stories: How Narratives Make Us Care about Other Species by Wojciech Malecki et al. is the first book to investigate the power of stories to raise our concern for animals, which has been postulated across decades …
Call for Papers for the “Powerful Literary Fiction Texts” conference in Brighton, June 19-21, 2019, which brings together literary studies, stylistics and linguistics, empirical aesthetics and oral performance. Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2018.
Not only poetry, but also works …
Empirical Ecocriticism Workshop at the Rachel Carson Center
Dates: December 14-15, 2018
Location: Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany
Conveners: Matthew Schneider-Mayerson (Yale-NUS-College) and Alexa Weik von Mossner (University of Klagenfurt)
There is a growing understanding across disciplines that narratives are …
