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AAU / Department of English / Team / Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexa Weik von Mossner

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexa Weik von Mossner

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
  • Courses | Research

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Research areas
  • Ecocriticism
  • Cognitive Cultural Studies
  • Affective Narratology
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Environmental Humanities
ÖSTAT - Subject areas
  • American studies
  • Film studies
  • Linguistics and Literature
  • Environmental research
Curriculum Vitae

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

Selected Publications
  • 2018
  • 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.

  • 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
  • Alexa Weik von Mossner: Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative. The Ohio State University Press, 2017,

  • 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
  • Alexa Weik von Mossner: Ecocinema and Gender. Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2016, S. 417 - 426.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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
  • Alexa Weik von Mossner: Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination. University of Texas Press, Austin (TX), 2014,

  • Alexa Weik von Mossner: Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo (ON), 2014,

  • 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.

  • 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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