Publications

The main purpose of this website is to make the content of my publications more readily accessible. Much of what I have written was published in the form of book chapters which are not available online. Items are grouped under the following headings: Climate fiction; Ecocritical theory; Energy humanities; Place, identity and ecology; Cultural animal studies; Nature poetry; Overviews of German ecocriticism; German environmental literature; Memory studies; Interviews and blogs; Links. Each item is only listed once, but some relate to more than one subject. If you are looking for material on a particular subject, it may therefore be worth using the Keyword search. Links are provided to open access publications: other titles are linked to prepublication manuscripts. The list includes some hitherto unpublished material. Most of the items are in English: some are written in German. (The language can be seen from the title!) A fuller, chronological listing of my publications, conference papers and research projects can be found on the University of Bath’s research portal:

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Climate fiction

Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century?

‘Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film’. From Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature, edited by M. Löschnigg and M. Braunecker, Brill/ Rodopi 2019, 131-153.

Barbara Kingsolver, Das Flugverhalten der Schmetterlinge als Klassiker der Klimaliteratur

'Barbara Kingsolver, Das Flugverhalten der Schmetterlinge als Klassiker der Klimaliteratur'. [Text of a contribution to the panel ‘Klassiker der Climate Fiction’, Berlin Climate Fiction Festival, 4 December 2020.]

Cli-Fi and the Power of Stories

'Cli-Fi and the Power of Stories'. In The Honest Ulsterman, February 2020

What is Cli-Fi, and why are stories about climate change important?

‘What is Cli-Fi, and why are stories about climate change important?’, talk at Oxford book launch of Cli-Fi: A Companion, 11 March 2020.

Introduction, in Cli-Fi: A Companion

‘Introduction’, co-authored with A. Johns-Putra. In Cli-Fi: A Companion, edited by A. Goodbody and A. Johns-Putra, Peter Lang 2019, 1-17.

Ilija Trojanow’s The Lamentations of Zeno: Prophetic Cli-Fi

‘Ilija Trojanow’s The Lamentations of Zeno: Prophetic Cli-Fi’. In Cli-Fi: A Companion, edited by A.G. and A. Johns-Putra, Peter Lang 2019, 67-72.

The Rise of the Climate Change Novel

‘The Rise of the Climate Change Novel’, co-authored with A. Johns-Putra. In Cambridge Critical Concepts: Climate, edited by A. Johns-Putra, Cambridge University Press 2019, 229-245.

Climate Scepticism in Germany

‘Klimaskepsis in Germany’. In G. Garrard, A.G., G. Handley and S. Posthumus, Climate Change Scepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis, Bloomsbury Academic 2019, 91-131.

Beyond Communication: Climate change fiction

‘Beyond Communication: Climate change fiction’. In Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change, edited by D. Holmes and L. Richardson, Edward Elgar 2020, 320-329.

Was ist Climate Fiction?

‘Was ist Climate Fiction? Kurzvortrag’. Online contribution to Berlin Climate Fiction Festival, 4 December 2020.

Ecocritical theory

Deconstructing Greenspeak: Für eine kritische Diskursanalyse

‘Deconstructing Greenspeak: Für eine kritische Diskursanalyse als Beitrag der Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft zum Verständnis des Umweltproblems’. From Wissen durch Sprache: Theorie, Praxis und Erkenntnisinteresse des Forschungsnetzwerkes „Sprache und Wissen“, edited by E. Felder and M. Müller, de Gruyter 2009, 421-450.

Ecocritical Theory: Romantic Roots and Impulses from Twentieth-Century European Thinkers

‘Ecocritical Theory: Romantic Roots and Impulses from Twentieth-Century European Thinkers’. From Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment, edited by L. Westling, Cambridge University Press 2013, 61-74.

Frame Analysis and the Literature of Climate Change

‘Frame Analysis and the Literature of Climate Change’. From Literature, Ecology, Ethics, edited by T. Müller and M. Sauter, Universitätsverlag Winter 2012, 15-33.

Frame Analysis: Overview and Relevance for the Critical Study of Environmental Discourse

‘Frame Analysis: Overview and Relevance for the Critical Study of Environmental Discourse’. Working Paper for workshop of ‘The Cultural Framing of Environmental Discourse’ research network, 16 June 2011.

Frame Theory and its Relevance for Environmental Communication

‘Frame Theory and its Relevance for Environmental Communication’. Working Paper for workshop of ‘The Cultural Framing of Environmental Discourse’ research network, 2 December 2010.

From Romantic Pantheism to Eco-Cosmopolitanism: Sense of Place, Belonging and Environmental Consciousness

‘From Romantic Pantheism to Eco-Cosmopolitanism: Sense of Place, Belonging and Environmental Consciousness’. From Sense of Place: Transatlantic Perspectives // Sentido del Arraigo: Perspectivas Transatlánticas, edited by C. Flys Junquera and A.G., Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin 2016, 11-33.

Introduction: 2020 Ecocriticism, in Europe and Beyond

‘Introduction: 2020 Ecocriticism, in Europe and Beyond’, co-authored with C. Flys Junquera and S. Oppermann. Ecozon@ 11:2 (2020), edited by C. Flys Junquera, A. Goodbody and S. Oppermann, 1-7.

Introduction, in Climate Change Scepticism

‘Introduction’. In G. Garrard, A.G., G. Handley and S. Posthumus, Climate Change Scepticism: A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis, Bloomsbury Academic 2019, 1-39.

Life Writing and Nature Writing in W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn

‘Life Writing and Nature Writing in W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn’. In Ecology and Life Writing, edited by A. Hornung and B. Zhao, 2013, 335-351.

Introduction, in Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches

‘Introduction’, co-authored with K. Rigby. In Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches, edited by A.G. and K. Rigby, University of Virginia Press 2011, 1-14.

Energy humanities

Framing in Literary Energy Narratives

‘Framing in Literary Energy Narratives’. From Framing the Environmental Humanities, edited by H. Bergthaller and P. Mortensen, Brill/ Rodopi 2018, 15-33.

Gathering Around Stories: Interdisciplinary experiments in support of energy system transitions

‘Gathering Around Stories: Interdisciplinary experiments in support of energy system transitions’, co-authored with J. Smith et al. Energy Research and Social Science 31 (July 2017), 284-294.

Climate Change and the Industrial Revolution: Literature between Policy-Makers and the Public

‘Climate Change and the Industrial Revolution: Literature between Policy-Makers and the Public’. In Sites of Remembering: Landscapes, Lessons, Policies, edited by V. Lakhani and E. de Smalen (RCC Perspectives 2018:3), 53-58.

Coal, Vril and Solar: Energy in the Novel

‘Coal, Vril and Solar: Energy in the Novel’. In Energetic. Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Energy, edited by J. Smith and R. Tyszczuk, Shed 2018, 70-73.

Stories of Energy: Narrative in the Energy Humanities. Introduction

‘Stories of Energy: Narrative in the Energy Humanities. Introduction’, co-authored with B. Smith. In Resilience. A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 6:2-3 (Spring – Fall 2019, Special Issue: ‘Stories of Energy: Narrative in the Energy Humanities’, edited by A.G. and B. Smith), 1-25.

Pandaemonium: Narratives of energy-system change in historical and literary perspective

‘Pandaemonium: Narratives of energy-system change in historical and literary perspective’, co-authored with N. Whyte. In Resilience. A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 6:2-3 (2019), 26-52.

Stories of Energy in Contemporary Novels: Reframing Energy through Narratives, Genres and Metaphors

‘Stories of Energy in Contemporary Novels: Reframing Energy through Narratives, Genres and Metaphors’. Metaphora. Journal for Literature Theory and Media. EV 2 (2017): ‘Climate Change, Complexity, Representation’, edited by Hannes Bergthaller, 1-15.

Place, identity and ecology

From Romantic Pantheism to Eco-Cosmopolitanism: Sense of Place, Belonging and Environmental Consciousness

‘From Romantic Pantheism to Eco-Cosmopolitanism: Sense of Place, Belonging and Environmental Consciousness’. From Sense of Place: Transatlantic Perspectives // Sentido del Arraigo: Perspectivas Transatlánticas, edited by C. Flys Junquera and A.G., Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin 2016, 11-33.

Heimat and the Place of Humans in the World: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung in Ecocritical Perspective

‘Heimat and the Place of Humans in the World: Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung in Ecocritical Perspective’. In New German Critique 2016:2 (‘The Challenge of Ecology to the Humanities: Post-Humanism or New Humanism?’, edited by B. Malkmus and H. Sullivan), 127-151.

Heimat als utopischer Raum der Intra-aktion zwischen Mensch und Natur. Zur Figu­rendarstellung in Jenny Erpenbecks Roman Heimsuchung

‘Heimat als utopischer Raum der Intra-aktion zwischen Mensch und Natur. Zur Figu­rendarstellung in Jenny Erpenbecks Roman Heimsuchung’. In Helden, ambivalente Protagonisten, nicht-menschliche Agenzien. Zur Figurendarstel­lung in umweltbezogener Literatur, edited by G. Dürbeck, U. Stobbe and J. Nesselhauf. Komparatistik Online 2 (2015), 85-99.

Heimat als Identität und ökologisches Bewusstsein stiftender Faktor: Zu Ansätzen in Romanen um 1900 von Bruno Wille, Hermann Hesse und Josef Ponten

‘Heimat als Identität und ökologisches Bewusstsein stiftender Faktor: Zu Ansätzen in Romanen um 1900 von Bruno Wille, Hermann Hesse und Josef Ponten‘. In Natur und Moderne um 1900: Räume, Repräsentationen, Medien, edited by A. Paulsen and A. Sandberg, Transcript 2013, 183-202.

The Nomad as Theoretical and Literary Model of Ecological Inhabitation in a Globalised World

‘The Nomad as Theoretical and Literary Model of Ecological Inhabitation in a Globalised World’. In The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons, edited by S. Oppermann, U. Özda?,  N. Özkan and S. Slovic, Cambridge Scholars 2011, 82-99.

Political Dislocation and Poetic Reorientation in Volker Braun’s Bodenloser Satz

‘Political Dislocation and Poetic Reorientation in Volker Braun’s Bodenloser Satz’. In Dislocation and Reorientation: Exile, Division and the End of Communism in German Culture and Politics, edited by A.G, P. O’Dochartaigh and D. Tate, Rodopi 2009, 21-32.

Cultural animal studies

Animal Studies: Kafka’s Animal Stories

‘Animal Studies: Kafka’s Animal Stories’. From Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, edited by H. Zapf, de Gruyter 2016, 249-272.

Wolves and Wolf Men as Literary Tropes and Figures of Thought: Eco- and Zoopoetic Perspectives on Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem and Other Wolf Narratives

‘Wolves and Wolf Men as Literary Tropes and Figures of Thought: Eco- and Zoopoetic Perspectives on Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem and Other Wolf Narratives’. In Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics, edited by F. Middelhoff, S. Schönbeck, R. Borgards and C. Gersdorf, Rombach 2019, 307-324.

The Call of the Wild: Hunting and ecology in the stories of Otto Alscher and Horst Stern

‘The Call of the Wild: Hunting and ecology in the stories of Otto Alscher and Horst Stern’. In A.G., Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, 168-208.

Nature poetry

German Ecopoetry: From Naturlyrik (Nature Poetry) and Ökolyrik (Environmental Poetry) to Poetry in the Anthropocene

‘German Ecopoetry: From Naturlyrik (Nature Poetry) and Ökolyrik (Environmental Poetry) to Poetry in the Anthropocene’. From Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture, edited by G. Dürbeck, U. Stobbe, H. Zapf and E. Zemanek, Lexington 2017, 263-279.

Naturlyrik – Umweltlyrik – Lyrik im Anthropozän: Herausforderungen, Kontinuitäten und Unterschiede

‘Naturlyrik – Umweltlyrik – Lyrik im Anthropozän: Herausforderungen, Kontinuitäten und Unterschiede’. In All dies hier, Majestät, ist deins: Lyrik im Anthropo­zän. Anthologie, edited by A. Bayer and D. Seel, kookbooks and Deutsches Museum 2016, 287-305.

Lyrik fürs Anthropozän: Die „Naturgedichte“ von Richard Pietraß

‘Lyrik fürs Anthropozän: Die „Naturgedichte“ von Richard Pietraß’. In Park: Zeitschrift für neue Literatur 66 (2013), 97-100.

Place, Identity and Ecology in the Poetry of Michael Hamburger

‘Place, Identity and Ecology in the Poetry of Michael Hamburger’. Unpublished paper given at the conference “Poetic Ecologies: Nature as Text and Text as Nature in English-Language Verse”, Université Libre de Bruxelles,15 May 2008.

Heideggerian Ecopoetics and the Nature Poetry Tradition: Naming and Dwelling in Loerke, Lehmann and Bobrowski

‘Heideggerian Ecopoetics and the Nature Poetry Tradition: Naming and Dwelling in Loerke, Lehmann and Bobrowski’. In A.G., Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, 129-167.

Veränderte Landschaft: East German Nature Poetry since Reunification

‘Veränderte Landschaft: East German Nature Poetry since Reunification’. In German as a Foreign Language 2 (2005), 103-125.

Deutsche Ökolyrik: Comparative Observations on the Emergence and Expression of Environmental Consciousness in West and East German Poetry

‘Deutsche Ökolyrik: Comparative Observations on the Emergence and Expression of Environmental Consciousness in West and East German Poetry’. In German Literature at a Time of Change 1989-1990: German Unity and German Identity in Literary Perspective, edited by A. Williams, S. Parkes and R. Smith, Peter Lang 1991, 372-400.

Overviews of German ecocriticism

Deutscher Ecocriticism heute

‘Deutscher Ecocriticism heute: ökologisch orientierte Impulse in den Geisteswissenschaften’. Unpublished paper given at the Université de Caen Normandie in February 2020, with revisions in January 2021.

Ecocriticism in German Studies: Key Publications and Current Themes

'Ecocriticism in German Studies: Key Publications and Current Themes’. Keynote address at German Hub workshop ‘Ecology in German Literary Criticism – Recent Developments and Approaches’, Cambridge, 5 December 2020.

Ökologisch orientierte Literaturwissenschaft in Deutschland

‘Ökologisch orientierte Literaturwissenschaft in Deutschland’. In Ecocriticism: Eine Einführung, edited by G. Dürbeck and U. Stobbe, Böhlau 2015, 123-135.

Ecocrítica alemã: Um panorama

‘Ecocrítica alemã: Um panorama’. In Pandaemonium Germanicum: Revista de Estudos Germanísticos 17:24 (July-Dec 2014).

German Ecocriticism: An Overview

‘German Ecocriticism: An Overview’. In The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism, edited by Greg Garrard, Oxford University Press 2014, 547-559.

No Ecocriticism, Please, We’re German!

‘No Ecocriticism, Please, We’re German!’. Unpublished paper given at the conference ‘Criticising the Critic’, Institute of Germanic Studies London, November 2000.

German environmental literature

From Raabe to Amery: German Literature in Ecocritical Perspective

‘From Raabe to Amery: German Literature in Ecocritical Perspective’. Paper given in April 1998 at the Annual Conference of University Teachers of German.

From Modernist Catastrophe to Postmodern Survival

‘From Modernist Catastrophe to Postmodern Survival: Technological disaster in Georg Kaiser’s Gas trilogy and Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s Untergang der Titanic. From A.G, Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, 87-126.

German Environmental Literature: 5 Representative Items

‘German Environmental Literature: 5 Representative Items’. From ‘A Booklist of International Environmental Literature’, edited by S. Slovic. World Literature Today 83:1 (2009), 53-56.

Goethe as Ecophilosophical Inspiration and Literary Model

‘Goethe as Ecophilosophical Inspiration and Literary Model’. From A.G, Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, 45-86.

Greening the City: From allotment colony to ecology park

‘Greening the City: From allotment colony to ecology park in the novels of Paul Gurk and Günter Seuren’. From A.G, Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, 209-252.

Telling the Story of Climate Change: The German novel in the Anthropocene

‘Telling the Story of Climate Change: The German novel in the Anthropocene’. In German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene, edited by C. Schaumann and H. Sullivan, Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 293-314.

Melting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno: Didactic impulses and aesthetic distancia­tion in German climate change fiction

‘Melting Ice and the Paradoxes of Zeno: Didactic impulses and aesthetic distancia­tion in German climate change fiction’. Ecozon@ 4:1 (2013), 92-102.

“Psyche among friends”. Michael Hamburger’s BBC Radio Broadcasts

‘“Psyche among friends”. Michael Hamburger’s BBC Radio Broadcasts’. In German-Speaking Exiles in Great Britain, edited by J. Ritchie, Rodopi 2001, 87-104.

Nature in German Culture: The Role of Writers in Environmental Debate

‘Nature in German Culture: The Role of Writers in Environmental Debate’. In A.G., Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, 3-41.

Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature

‘Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature’. In A.G., Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of Ecocriticism, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, v-xiv.

Die Ringe des Saturn und Solar. Sinnbilder und Schreibstrategien in literarischen Stellungnahmen zur ökologischen Krise von W.G. Sebald und Ian McEwan

‘Die Ringe des Saturn und Solar. Sinnbilder und Schreibstrategien in literarischen Stellungnahmen zur ökologischen Krise von W.G. Sebald und Ian McEwan’. In Ökologische Transformationen und literarische Repräsentationen, edited by M. Ermisch, U. Kruse and U. Stobbe, Universitätsverlag Göttingen 2010, 131-48.

Memory studies

Poetic Reflections on Stunted Lives: Wulf Kirsten’s Contribution to East German Autobiographical Writing

‘Poetic Reflections on Stunted Lives: Wulf Kirsten’s Contribution to East German Autobiographical Writing’. In The Self in Transition: East German Autobiographical Writing Before and After Unification. Essays in Honour of Dennis Tate (German Monitor 75), edited by D. Clarke and A.G., Rodopi 2012, 145-63.

Recalling the Past to Imagine the Future: History and Memory in Climate Fiction

‘Recalling the Past to Imagine the Future: History and Memory in Climate Fiction’. Online talk given for ‘The Politics of Culture and Memory’ Research Group, University of Bath, February 2021.

Sense of Place and Lieu de Mémoire: A Cultural Memory Approach to Environmental Texts

‘Sense of Place and Lieu de Mémoire: A Cultural Memory Approach to Environmental Texts’. In Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches, edited by A.G. and Kate Rigby, University of Virginia Press 2011, 55-67.

Peter Handke’s Heimat and the Politics of Place

‘The Ninth Country: Peter Handke’s Heimat and the Politics of Place’. Unpublished paper given at the conference ‘The Dynamics of Memory in the New Europe: National Memories and the European Project’, Nottingham Trent University, September 2007.

Remembering Chernobyl

‘Remembering Chernobyl’. Unpublished paper given at the conference ‘Construct­ions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiogra­phy, Literature and Media’, University of Swansea, September 2007.

Interviews and blogs

From Romantic Poetry to Contemporary Fiction and Climate Discourse

‘From Romantic Poetry to Contemporary Fiction and Climate Discourse’, written in 2015 for the Rachel Carson Center’s ‘Making Tracks’ blog.

Literatur und Klimawandel

‘Literatur und Klimawandel’. Interview, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 4 December 2020. 

Links

ASLE-UKI

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland

Bath Spa Centre for Environmental Humanities 

Bath Spa Centre for Environmental Humanities  

Berlin Climate Fiction Festival 2020 

Berlin Climate Fiction Festival 2020 

Climate Cultures Network Berlin 

Climate Cultures Network Berlin 

EASLCE

European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment 

Ecozon@

Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment

Green Letters

Green Letters. Studies in Ecocriticism

Nature, Culture and Literature

Nature, Culture and Literature (Brill/ Rodopi book series)

Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society

Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society

Stories of Change

Stories of Change: The Past, Present and Future of Energy (AHRC funded project) 

The Politics of Culture and Memory 

The Politics of Culture and Memory. University of Bath Research Group