Matthew SCHNEIDER-MAYERSON

Matthew SCHNEIDER-MAYERSON

Associate Professor of English at Colby College,

mschneid@colby.edu

Associate Professor Matthew Schneider-Mayerson is an interdisciplinary scholar of environmental studies whose research combines sociology, media studies, and literary criticism to examine the cultural, social, and political dimensions of climate change, with a focus on climate justice. He is the author of Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2015), co-editor of An Ecotopian Lexicon (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), and editor of Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspective on Life in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2020). He is currently writing a book about eco-reproductive concerns in the age of climate change, co-editing a book on empirical ecocriticism, and conducting empirical studies on the reception of climate fiction.

published papers

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, ed. Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2020.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew and Brent Ryan Bellamy, eds. An Ecotopian Lexicon. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “The Environmental Politics of Reproductive Choices in the Age of Climate Change.” Environmental Politics (2021), 10.1080/09644016.2021.1902700.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “Performative Pedagogy: Modeling Affect and Action in Climate Change Courses.” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 8.1 (2021): 32-36.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew and Leong Kit Ling. “Eco-Reproductive Concerns in the Age of Climate Change.” Climatic Change 163 (2020): 1007-2023.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, Abel Gustafson, Anthony Leiserowitz, Matthew H. Goldberg, Seth A. Rosenthal, and Matthew Ballew. “Environmental Literature as Persuasion: An Experimental Test of the Effects of Reading Climate Fiction.” Environmental Communication (2020), 10.1080/17524032.2020.1814377.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, Alexa Weik von Mossner, and W.P. Malecki. “Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Texts and Empirical Methods.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27.2 (2020): 327-336.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “‘Just as in the Book’? The Influence of Literature on Readers’ Awareness of Climate Injustice and Perception of Climate Migrants.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27.2 (2020): 337-364.

O’Gorman, Emily, Thom van Dooren, Ursula Münster, Joni Adamson, Christof Mauch, Sverker Sörlin, Marco Amiero, Kati Lindström, Donna Houston, José Augusto Pádua, Kate Rigby, Owain Jones, Judy Motion, Stephen Muecke, Chia-ju Chang, Shuyuan Lu, Christopher Jones, Lesley Green, Frank Matose, Hedley Twidle, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Bethany Wiggin, and Dolly Jørgensen. “Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices.” Environmental Humanities 11.2 (2019): 427-460.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “Whose Odds? The Absence of Climate Justice in American Climate Fiction.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 26.4 (2019): 944-967.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “The Influence of Climate Fiction: An Empirical Survey of Readers.” Environmental Humanities 10.2 (2018): 473-500.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “Climate Change Fiction.” In American Literature in Transition: 2000 – 2010, edited by Rachel Greenwald Smith (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 309-321.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “Some Islands Will Rise: Singapore in the Anthropocene.” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 4.2-3 (2017): 166-184.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “Affect.” In Fueling Culture: 101 Words for Energy and Environment, edited by Imre Szeman, Patricia Yaeger and Jennifer Wenzel (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2017), 28-30.

Howe, Cymene, Jessica Lockrem, Hannah Appel, Edward Hackett, Dominic Boyer, Randal Hall, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Albert Pope, Akhil Gupta, Elizabeth Rodwell, Andrea Ballastero, Trevor Durbin, Farès el-Dahdah, Elizabeth Long and Cyrus Mody. “Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk.” Science, Technology and Human Values 41.3 (2016): 547-565.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “From Politics to Prophecy: Environmental Quiescence and the ‘Peak-Oil’ Movement.” Environmental Politics 22.5 (2013): 866-882.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “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 (2013): 289-314.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “The Dan Brown Phenomenon: Conspiracism in Post-9/11 Popular Fiction.” Radical History Review 111 (2011): 194-201.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “‘Too Black’: Race in the ‘Dark Ages’ of the National Basketball Association, 1976-1979.” The International Journal of Sport and Society 1.1 (2010): 223-233.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “Popular Fiction Studies.” Studies in Popular Culture 33.1 (2010): 21-35.

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel.” American Studies 50.3/4 (2009): 63-83.