DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Professional Experience

2016 Habilitation in American Studies, University of 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 the University of 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).

She currently is principal investigator on the research project “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures” (2018-2021), which has been funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). And together with Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Wojciech Malecki, she is developing a new interdisciplinary research field within the environmental humanities, Empirical Ecocriticism.

For more information please visit her personal website: https://www.alexaweikvonmossner.com