Member Publications

Wojciech Małecki, Assistant Professor of Literary Theory, Institute of Polish Philology, University of Wrocław, Poland

  • Małecki, Wojciech, Alexa Weik von Mossner and Małgorzata Dobrowolska. Forthcoming. “Stories versus Speciesism: The Case of Alice Walker's ‘Am I Blue?’” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. (slated for Spring 2020)
  • Małecki, Wojciech, Bogusław Pawłowski, Piotr Sorokowski, and Anna Oleszkiewicz. Forthcoming. “Feeling for Textual Animals: Narrative Empathy Across Species Lines.” Poetics. (slated for 2019)
  • Małecki, Wojciech, Piotr Sorokowski, Bogusław Pawłowski, Marcin Cieński. 2019. Human Minds and Animal Stories: How Narratives Make Us Care About Other Species. New York and London: Routledge.
  • Małecki, Wojciech, Bogusław Pawłowski, Marcin Cieński, and Piotr Sorokowski. 2018. “Can Fiction Make Us Kinder to Other Species? The Impact of Fiction on pro-Animal Attitudes and Behavior.” Poetics 66 (February): 54–63.
  • Małecki, Wojciech, Bogusław Pawłowski, and Piotr Sorokowski. 2016. “Literary Fiction Influences Attitudes toward Animal Welfare.” PLoS ONE 11.1212

Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Environmental Studies), Yale-NUS College

  • Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. Forthcoming. “Climate Fiction, Empathy, and Environmental Justice: Surveying the Reception of The Water Knife.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. (slated for Spring 2020)
  • Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. 2018. “The Influence of Climate Fiction: An Empirical Survey of Readers.” Environmental Humanities 10(2).
  • Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. 2013. “Disaster Movies and the ‘Peak Oil’ Movement: Does Popular Culture Encourage Eco-Apocalyptic Beliefs in the U.S.?” Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature & Culture 7(3): 289-314.

Alexa Weik von Mossner, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Klagenfurt in Austria

  • Małecki, Wojciech, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and Małgorzata Dobrowolska. Forthcoming. “Stories versus Speciesism: The Case of Alice Walker's ‘Am I Blue?’” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. (slated for Spring 2020)
  • Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion and Environmental Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Frank Hakemulder, Assistant Professor, Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Utrecht University), and affiliated full professor at the Reading Centre (Stavanger University).

  • De Mulder, H.N.M., Hakemulder, F., van den Berghe, Rianne, Klaassen, F. & van Berkum, J.J.A. 2017. Effects of exposure to literary narrative fiction - From book smart to street smart? Scientific Study of Literature, 7(1): 129-169.
  • Tan, Ed, Doicaru, Miruna, Hakemulder, F., Balint, K.E. & Kuijpers, M.M. 2017. Into film: - Does absorption in a movie’s story world pose a paradox? In Frank Hakemulder, Moniek Kuijpers, Ed S. Tan, Katalin Bálint & Miruna Doicaru (Eds.), Narrative Absorption. 97-118. John Benjamins.
  • Hakemulder, F., Kuijpers, M.M., Tan, Ed, Balint, K.E. & Doicaru, Miruna. 2017. Narrative Absorption. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Koopman, Emy & Hakemulder, Frank. 2015. Effects of Literature on Empathy and Self-Reflection - A Theoretical-Empirical Framework. Journal of Literary Theory, 9(1), 79-111