Alexa Weik von Mossner
University of Fribourg

Alexa Weik von Mossner is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria, and an Affiliate of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the University of Munich in Germany. She earned her Ph.D. in Literature at the University of California, San Diego in 2008. Her essays have appeared in journals such as the African American Review, English Studies, Environmental Communication, Ecozon@, and in the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. Her current research focuses on the imagination of global ecological risk in American popular culture narratives.