Member Publications

Discover a selection of the most relevant ecocritical publications by our members

(this page will soon be updated)

Hannes Bergthaller

  • “Cybernetics and Social Systems Theory.” Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches. Eds. Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2011. 217-29.
  • “Umwelt.” 9/11 – Kein Tag, der die Welt veränderte. Eds. Michael Butter, Birte Christ and Patrick Keller. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011. 30-47.
  • “Housebreaking the Human Animal: Humanism and the Problem of Sustainability in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood.English Studies 91.7 (2010), 728-743.
  • “Supernatural Landscapes: On Edgar Allen Poe’s ‘The Domain Of Arnheim,’ Satellite Images, and Cognitive Prosthetics.” 生態人文主義 (The Ecohumanist) 4 (2010), 47-65.
  • “Orientalism and Millenarian Dialectics in Walt Whitman’s ‘Passage to India’ and Gary Snyder’s Earth House Hold.Orient and Orientalisms in American Poetry. Eds. Christian Klöckner and Sabine Sielke. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 275-297.
  • “Physiozentrismus, Physikotheologie und ‘Absolutismus der Wirklichkeit’ – Rachel Carsons The Edge of the Sea, mit Hans Blumenberg gelesen.” Wasser – Kultur Ökologie. Beiträge zum Wandel im Umgang mit dem Wasser und seiner literarischen Imagination. Eds. Axel Goodbody and Berbeli Wanning. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2008. 171-194.
  • Populäre Ökologie. Zur Literatur und Geschichte der modernen Umweltbewegung in den USA. [Popular Ecology. On the Literature and History of the Modern Environmental Movement in the US.] New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
  • “Ecocriticism, American Studies, and the Limits of Both: A German Perspective on the Internationalization of a New Discipline.” REAL (Yearbook for Research in English and American Literature) 23. Transnational American Studies. Eds. Stefan Brandt, Winfried Fluck, and Ingrid Thaler. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2007. 273-297.
  • “’Like a Ship to be Tossed’: Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism. Eds. Fiona Becket and Terry Gifford. Nature, Culture and Literature 5. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 75-97.
  • “’Trees are what everyone needs’: The Lorax, anthropocentrism, and the problem of mimesis.” Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies. Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. Eds. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Meyer. Nature, Culture and Literature 3. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 155-176.

Catrin Gersdorf

  • Gersdorf, Catrin and Sylvia Mayer (eds.). Natur, Kultur, Text: Beiträge zu Ökologie und Literaturwissenschaft. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2005 (Including “Ökologie und Literaturwissenschaft: Eine Einleitung,” pp.7-28).
  • Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. Nature, Culture and Literature Series 3. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006 (coedited with Sylvia Mayer).
  • “History, Technology, Ecology: Conceptualizing the Cultural Function of Landscape,” ICON: The Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (2005).
  • “Nathanael West, the American Renaissance, and Literary History as Cultural Ecology,” Transatlantic Dialogues: A Festschrift for Eberhard Brüning. Ed. Hartmut Keil (Tübingen: Stauffenberg-Verlag Brigitte Narr, 2005).

Axel Goodbody

  • Umwelt-Lesebuch. Green Issues in Contemporary German Writing, edited, with introduction and notes, Manchester: MUP 1997.
  • “Catastrophism in post-war German Literature,” in Colin Riordan (ed.), Green Thought in German Culture, Swansea: University of Wales Press 1997, 159-180.
  • Literatur und Ökologie, edited, with introduction (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur neueren Germanistik 43), Amsterdam: Rodopi 1998.
  • “Literature on the environment in the GDR: Ecological activism and the aesthetics of literary protest,” in Robert Atkins and Martin Kane (ed.), Retrospect and Review. Aspects of the Literature of the GDR 1976-1990, Amsterdam: Rodopi 1997, 138-260.
  • “From Raabe to Amery: German Literature in Ecocritical Perspective,” in S. Giles and P. Graves (ed.), From Classical Shades to Vickers Victorious: Shifting Perspectives in British German Studies, Bern, etc.: Peter Lang 1999, 77-96.
  • The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxieties, Visions, Realities, edited, New York and Oxford: Berghahn 2002.
  • Revisiting Space: Space and Place in European Cinema, edited with W. Everett, Oxford and New York: Peter Lang  2005.
  • Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2007.
  • “Wilhelm Lehmanns Bukolische Tagebücher. Der Dichter als Nature Writer,” in Wilhelm Lehmann zwischen Naturwissen und Poesie (Sichtbare Zeit. Journal der Wilhelm-Lehmann-Gesellschaft 3), 2008, 51-67.

Christa Grewe-Volpp

  • Natural Spaces Mapped by Human Minds”: Ökokritische und ökofeministische Analysen zeitgenössischer amerikanischer Romane.Tübingen: Narr, 2004.
  • “Das renaturierte Haus und die unbehauste Natur in Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping,” in Frauenblicke, Männerblicke, Frauenzimmer, ed. Waltraud Fritsch-Rößler, St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2002, pp. 331-347.
  • “The Ecological Indian vs. the Spiritually Dead White Man: The Function of Ethnocentric Notions in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”, Amerikastudien 47.2 (2002): 269-283.
  • “Octavia Butler and the Nature-Culture Divide: An Ecofeminist Approach to the Xenogenesis-Trilogy”, in Restoring the Connection to the Natural World: Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination, ed. Sylvia Mayer (FORECAAST 10), Münster: LIT Verlag 2003, 149-173.
  • “‘The Oil was Made from their Bones: Environmental (In)justice in Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus”, ISLE 12.1 (2005): 61-78.

Serenella Iovino

  • Ecologia letteraria. Una strategia di sopravvivenza. Preface by Cheryll Glotfelty; Afterword by Scott Slovic, Milan. Edizioni Ambiente, 2006. 157 pp.
  • Filosofie dell’ambiente. Natura, Etica, Società. Rome. Carocci. 159 pp. (2004, Reprinted 2006, 2007, 2008).
  • Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, Journal of Dept. of English of the National Taiwan Normal University, 34/1 (2008) Special Issue: Water, co-edited with S. Slovic and S. Yamashiro.
  • “Restoring the Imagination of Place. Narrative Reinhabitation and the Po Valley.” In The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place. Ed. T. Lynch, C. Glotfelty, and K. Armbruster (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012).
  • “The Wilderness of the Human Other. Italo Calvino’s The Watcher and a Reflection on Third-Wave Ecocriticism.” In The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizon. Eds. S. Oppermann, U. Ozdag, N. Ozkan, and S. Slovic (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholarly Press, 2011).
  • “La Mente, el lugar, las historias. Narrativas de re-habitación para la Llanura padana.” In Literatura y sustenibilidad en la era del antropoceno. Ed. J. M. Marrero Henríquez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: MAPFRE Guanarteme, 2011).
  • “Ecocriticism, Ecology of Mind, and Narrative Ethics: A Theoretical Ground of Ecocriticism as Educational Practice.” In ISLE–Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 17/4 (Autumn 2010).
  • “The Human Alien. Otherness, Humanism, and the Future of Ecocriticism.” In: Ecozona–European Journal of Culture, Literature and Environment. Vol. 1 No. 1/2010.
  • “Ecocriticism and a Non-Anthropocentric Humanism: Reflections on Local Natures and Global Responsibilities.” In Local Natures, Global Responsibilities, ASNEL Papers 15, Ed. Laurenz Volkmann, Nancy Grimm, Ines Detmers, and Katrin Thomson (Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2010). 29-53.
  • “Quanto scommettiamo? Ecologia letteraria, educazione ambientale e Le Cosmicomiche di Italo Calvino.” In Compar(a)ison. An International Journal of Comparative Literature, Special Issue: Literature and Ecology 2/2007 (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2010): 107-23.
  • “Redeeming Nature? The Garden as a Moral Allegory.” In Cultural Landscapes: Proceedings of the Third Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment. Ed. C. Flys Junquera and I. Sanz Alonso (Alcalá de Henares, Universidad de Alcalá, 2010). 278-84.
  • “Naples 2008, Or, The Waste Land: Trash, Citizenship, and an Ethic of Narration.” In Neohelicon 36/2 Special Issue: Beyond Thoreau: Literary Response to Nature, East and West. Ed. Ning Wang (Amsterdam, Springer, 2009) 335-46.
  • “Urban Waste, Ecomafia and Environmental Culture: A Non-romantic Journey to Naples.” (Translated into Chinese by C. Xiangzhan). In Metropolitan Culture Research in China. 1, 2009: 289-307.
  • “Social Justice as an Environmental Issue.” In Toward a New Socialism, Eds. Anton, A. and Schmitt R. (Lanham and New York: Lexington Books, 2006), 365-86.
  • “The Ashes of Italy. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Ethics of Place.” In J. Gifford, G. Zezulka-Mailloux, eds. Culture and the State. Vol. 1, Landscape and Ecology. Edmonton: CRC Humanities Studio, 2003: 70-91.

Sylvia Mayer

  • Restoring the Connection to the Natural World: Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination. FORECAAST Vol. 10. Münster/Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2003 (editor).
  • Naturethik und Neuengland-Regionalliteratur: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (American Studies – A Monograph Series, Vol. 116). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2004.
  • Natur, Kultur, Text: Beiträge zu Ökologie und Literaturwissenschaft. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2005 (coedited with Catrin Gersdorf).
  • Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. Nature, Culture and Literature Series 3. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006 (coedited with Catrin Gersdorf).
  • Ecodidactic Perspectives on English Language, Literatures and Cultures (coedited with Graham Wilson).
  • “The Traveller as Topographer: Jonathan Raban’s Bad Land. An American Romance.” Spatial Change in English Literature. Ed. Joachim Frenk. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2000. 173-83.
  • “Genre and Environmentalism: Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Speculative Fiction, and the African American Slave Narrative.” Restoring the Connection to the Natural World: Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination. Ed. Sylvia Mayer.Münster/Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 2003. 175-96.
  • “Literature and Environmental Ethical Criticism: Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Texts”, Anglia 124.1 (2006): 101-21.
  • “Teaching Hollywood Environmentalist Movies: The Example of The Day after Tomorrow,” Ecodidactic Perspectives on English Language, Literatures and Cultures. Eds. Sylvia Mayer & Graham Wilson. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2006. 105-20.
  • “Literary Studies, Ecofeminism, and the Relevance of Environmentalist Knowledge Production in the Humanities”. Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Perspectives on Ecocriticism. Eds. Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 111.28.“The Rhetoric of Toxic Discourse: Uses of Irony in John Cheever’s Oh What A Paradise It Seems”. Representing the Unimaginable. Narratives of Disaster. Eds. Angela Stock & Cornelia Stott. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007.163-72.“Environmentalism and Encounters with the Abject: T. Coraghessan Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth.” The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture. Eds. Monika Müller & Konstanze Kutzbach. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 221-34.

Irena Ragaisiene

  • “Nature as context: the representation of ambiguities and (mis)–identifications in the writing of Sylvia Plath”, International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal. Special Issue: Gender across Cultures, Lodz: University of Lodz Press, Vol. 7 (2004), No2: 87-99.
  • “Reaching out for the Forbidden Fruit: Religious Significations of the Tree Metaphor in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry”, Tiltai. Special Issue Vol. 25 (2004), 333-353.
  • “Dialoguing with the Literary Tradition: Revisionist Strategies in Sylvia Plath’s Poetry”, Literatura 45 (2003), no. 4: 29-41.

Rosemarie Rowley

Kadri Tüür

  • “Nature writing and intersemiosis”, in Intertextuality and Intersemiosis, ed. Marina Grishakova and Markku Lehtimäki, Tartu: Tartu University Press 2004, pp. 151–167.
  • “White Nights: An Ecocritical Reading of Ojars Vacietis”, in Freedom of People. Voice of People, ed. Anda Kubulina, Riga: Latvian Academy of Sciences (2005)
  • “Gardens and rivers: Urban nature in Tõnu Õnnepalu’s novels”, in Koht ja paik/Place and Location. Studies in Environmental Aesthetics and Semiotics IV/2004, pp. 85–100.
  • “Those Who Love (in) the Woods”, in Koht ja paik/Place and Location II, ed. Virve Sarapik, Kadri Tüür, Mari Laanemets (Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Toimetised/Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Arts 10), Tallinn 2002, pp. 488–498.
  • K. Tüür and T. Maran, “On Estonian Nature Writing”, in Estonian Literary Magazine, Autumn 2001, pp. 4–10.
  • “Of Place and Ecocriticism”, in Koht ja paik/Place and Location I, ed. Kaia Lehari and Virve Sarapik (Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Toimetised/Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Arts 8), Tallinn 2000, pp. 172–181.