Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexa Weik von Mossner
- Associate Professor of American Studies
- +43 463 2700 2526
- Alexa.WeikvonMossner [at] aau.at
- N.0.36
- by appointment
- Ecocriticism
- Cognitive Cultural Studies
- Affective Narratology
- Cosmopolitanism
- Environmental Humanities
- American studies
- Film studies
- Linguistics and Literature
- Environmental research
Professional Experience
2016 Habilitation in American Studies, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt
2008 Ph.D. in LIterature, University of California, San Diego
2006 M.A. in Literatures in English, University of California, San Diego
1994 Dipl. Wirt. Ing. / Industrial Engineering, Stuttgart Media University
Alexa Weik von Mossner worked for several years in the German film and television industry as a production manager and later scriptwriter before earning her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego and her Habilitation at Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt. She has published widely on cosmopolitanism, affective narratology, and various ecocritical issues in American literature and film. She is the author of Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion and Environmental Narrative (Ohio State University Press, 2017) and Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination (University of Texas Press, 2014). She is the editor of Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014), and the co-editor (with Sylvia Mayer) of The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture (Winter, 2014).
For more information please visit her personal website: https://www.alexaweikvonmossner.com
- 2018
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: The Moral Dilemma of Unsustainability: Eco-dystopian Fiction as Cultural Critique. Cultural Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, Routledge , New York, 2018, S. 194 - 208.
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Engaging Animals in Wildlife Documentaries: From Anthropomorphism to Trans-species Empathy. Cognitive Theory and Documentary Film, Palgrave Macmillan, New York (NY), 2018, S. 163 - 179.
- 2017
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative. The Ohio State University Press, 2017,
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Touching the Senses: Environments and Technologies at the Movies. The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2017, S. 337 - 345.
- 2016
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Ecocinema and Gender. Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2016, S. 417 - 426.
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Encountering the Sahara: Embodiment, Emotion, and Material Agency in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky. Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature, Brill Verlag, Leiden, 2016, S. 116 - 135.
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion. Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, New York, 2016, S. 534 - 550.
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Feeling Cosmopolitan: Strategic Empathy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C.. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States, Oxford University Press, 41, Oxford, 2016, S. 76 - 95.
- 2014
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination. University of Texas Press, Austin (TX), 2014,
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo (ON), 2014,
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Alexa Weik von Mossner: Science Fiction and the Risks of the Anthropocene: Anticipated Transformations in Dale Pendell’s The Great Bay. Environmental Humanities, School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, 5, 2014, S. 203 - 216.
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Sylvia Mayer, Alexa Weik von Mossner: The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture. Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, 247, Heidelberg, 2014,
A list of all publications is available on my personal website: https://www.alexaweikvonmossner.com/publications/
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