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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Call for Papers
Edited Volume: Empirical Ecocriticism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Narrative
Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 15, 2018
There is a growing consensus across disciplines that narratives are of central importance to our relationships with other humans and …
