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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
