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Posted on July 10, 2025July 10, 2025

Empirical Ecocriticism a Finalist for ASLE 2025 Book Award

Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change (2023), was named a finalist for the ASLE 2025 Ecocritical Book Award, awarded to the best book-length work of scholarly ecocriticism published in the last two years.

Congratulations to the editors, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, …

Posted on May 27, 2024November 24, 2024

Launch of N.E.S.T. Research Network: A Promising New Avenue for Empirical Ecocriticism

A new and exciting research network, “N.E.S.T – Narratives for Ecological and Sustainable Transitions,” has just launched. Funded by the European Union (NextGenerationEU) and the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), N.E.S.T. unites early-career postdoctoral researchers from various European …

Posted on August 25, 2023August 25, 2023

Empirical Ecocriticism the Theme of ENSCAN Conference

Empirical ecocriticism featured prominently at this year’s conference of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN), which took place on 13-14 June at the University of Helsinki under the auspices of ENSCAN, the Kone Foundation, the Research Project Literature and …

Posted on August 8, 2023October 1, 2024

Empirical Ecocriticism Edited Volume Published by the University of Minnesota Press

On August 1, the University of Minnesota Press released Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change, a foundational volume for empirical ecocriticism. It is edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki and Frank Hakemulder.

The book…

Posted on December 20, 2022December 20, 2022

Special Issue on Empirical Ecocriticism in Finnish Literary Journal

A special issue on empirical ecocriticism is now out in Joutsen / Svanen, a multilingual, peer-reviewed, annual publication on literary and cultural research that focuses on Finnish literature. Co-edited by Toni Lahtinen and Olli Löytty, it was published …

Posted on June 25, 2022June 25, 2022

Empirical Ecocriticism Workshop in Utrecht: The magic that happens when people get together and talk

EMPIRICAL ECOCRITICISM WORKSHOP IN UTRECHT

The magic that happens when people get together and talk

On June 10th 2022, Karin Fikkers and Frank Hakemulder organized a networking workshop on empirical ecocriticism at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Their goal for …

Posted on June 21, 2022December 20, 2022

Empirical Ecocriticism volume under contract with the University of Minnesota Press

We’re happy to share the news that the Empirical Ecocriticism volume now under contract with the University of Minnesota Press. Edited by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W.P. Malecki and Frank Hakemulder, it will be a foundational volume for …

Posted on January 24, 2022January 25, 2022

On the Recent Emergence of Graduate Work in Empirical Ecocriticism

The field of empirical ecocriticism is gaining traction in graduate programs across the environmental humanities. Recently, two master’s theses have responded to the call to bridge the gap between ecocriticism and the social sciences, presenting new and insightful studies into …

Posted on December 22, 2021December 22, 2021

Does Climate Fiction Make a Difference?

Literary Hub has published a new article by Matthew Schneider-Mayerson that considers the potential of climate fiction to both reflect and shape our realities on a rapidly changing planet

Entitled “Does Climate Fiction Make A Difference?,” the article …

Posted on November 23, 2021December 10, 2021

Article on the Impact of Narrating Endangered Species Across Media

The journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment has published an article entitled “Extinction Stories Matter: The Impact of Narrative Representations of Endangered Species Across Media” by W P Malecki, Alexa Weik von Mossner, Piotr Sorokowski, and Tomasz Frackowiak. …

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