Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alexa Weik von Mossner

E-Mail: Alexa [dot] WeikvonMossner [at] aau [dot] at
Telefon: +43 463 2700 2526

Raum:

N.0.36 Hauptgebäude, Nordtrakt Mitte, Ebene 0 (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik)

Sprechstunde: by appointment
Webseite: http://www.alexaweikvonmossner.com/

Zugehörigkeit:

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Campus-Portal Visitenkarte | Lehrveranstaltungen | Forschung

Forschungsschwerpunkte / ÖSTAT-Sachgebiete

Affective Narratology
Amerikanistik
Cognitive Cultural Studies
Cosmopolitanism
Ecocriticism
Environmental Humanities
Filmwissenschaft
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
Umweltforschung

Curriculum Vitae

Laufbahn

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 is Associate Professor of American Studies. She 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 Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice (Cambridge University Press 2025), 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 of The Anticipation of Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture (Winter, 2014), Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology (Routledge 2022), and Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change (University of Minnesota Press 2023). She has also published a novel, Fragile (2023).

She is currently a visiting professor at the University of Freiburg, where she directs the Visions of Sustainability project. and a researcher on the project “Cinema and Environment 2” (2025-2028), directed by Katarzyna Paszkiewicz at the University of the Balearic Islands.She was principal investigator on the research project “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures” (2018-2022), funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

She also works as a risk communication expert for the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG ECHO) of the European Commission, facilitating Masterclasses for European policy makers and contributing to the preparEU flagship initiative to address challenges in disaster risk communication

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

Ausgewählte Publikationen

2020
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Climate Change and the Dark Side of Translating Science into Popular Culture. The Dark Side of Translation, Routledge , New York, 2020, S. 120 - 142.
2019
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Empathy, Emotion, and Environment in Alternative Australian Landscape Cinema: The Case of Rabbit-Proof Fence. Emotions: History, Culture, Society , Brill Verlag, 3, Leiden, 2019, S. 245 - 265.
Alexa Weik von Mossner: How We Feel about (Not) Eating Animals: Vegan Studies and Cognitive Ecocriticism. Through a Vegan Studies Lens: Textual Ethics and Lived Activism, University of Nevada Press, 2019, S. 28 - 47.
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Why We Care about (Non)fictional Places: Empathy, Character, and Narrative Environment. Poetics Today, Duke University Press, 40, 2019, S. 559 - 577.
2018
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.
Alexa Weik von Mossner: From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene. Affective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment, University of Nebraska Press, 2018, S. 51 - 69.
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Green States of Mind? Cognition, Emotion, and Environmental Framing. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 22, London, 2018, S. 313 - 323.
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.
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.
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Vulnerable Lives: The Affective Dimensions of Risk in Young Adult Cli-Fi. Textual Practice, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 31, London, 2017, S. 553 - 566.
Alexa Weik von Mossner: When Everything Is Up for Grabs: Environmental Narcissism in Percival Everett’s Grand Canyon, Inc.. Ecocriticism: Environments in Anglophone Literatures, Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH, Heidelberg, 2017, S. 243 - 260.
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.
2015
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Slow Violence on the Beach: Documenting Disappearance in There Once Was an Island. The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littoral Space, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, 2015, S. 175 - 191.
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Small Islands in Documentary Film. Global Environment, XL edizioni, 8, Rom, 2015, S. 175 - 191.
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,
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/