INTERVIEW | MARCH 5, 2025
“Reading Climate Fiction with Tatiana Konrad”
By Sebastian Deiber
In the interview about her book, Climate Change Fiction and Ecocultural Crisis: The Industrial Revolution to the Present (University of Nevada Press, 2024), Tatiana Konrad told Rudolphina how popular narratives reflect, interpret, and respond to climate change. Through the lens of climate fiction, Tatiana Konrad demonstrates that these stories are more than just fiction—they serve as a powerful tool to imagine, understand, and even forecast climate crisis. Although devoted primarily to the topic of climate change, the book also addresses such issues as environmental pollution and the COVID-19 pandemic.
© Alexander Bachmayer
BOOK SERIES | UNIVERSITY OF EXETER PRESS
Environment, Senses and Emotions
https://www.exeterpress.co.uk/collections/environment-senses-and-emotions
Environment, Senses and Emotions aims to provide a comprehensive exploration of how environmental crises are represented, perceived and understood through the senses and emotions and the human impulse to make sense of the world. The series encourages diverse theoretical approaches to understanding the interrelations among environmental crises, the senses and emotions, and welcomes contributions from scholars in a variety of disciplines, including the environmental humanities, anthropology, sensory studies, media studies, geography, history, the health humanities, sociology and philosophy.
To discuss your book proposal, please contact:
the Series Editor: Tatiana Konrad, University of Vienna, tatiana.konrad@univie.ac.at
or Commissioning Editor: Becky Taylor, b.taylor@exeterpress.co.uk
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SPECIAL ISSUE | OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES
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“Cultures of Airborne Diseases”
Edited by Tatiana Konrad and Savannah Schaufler
Examining airborne diseases from the perspectives of literary studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and health humanities, among other fields, “Cultures of Airborne Diseases” platforms significant discourse engaging with air, pollution, viruses, and health. The articles that constitute this special journal issue consider representations of airborne diseases, directly interrogating how such representations help us better understand the complexity of air in the context of epidemics and pandemics. The contributors address topics inclusive of, but not limited to, contagion and transmission, air, air pollution, environmental crisis, cultural representations of disease and health, and questions of protection in an era of pandemics.
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BEST POSTER AWARD | MONDOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL & METATOX TEAM, UNIVERSITY OF PARIS CITÉ
Savannah Schaufler and Tatiana Konrad’s poster “Plastics, Cultural-Environmental Toxicity, and Air” presented by Savannah Schaufler at the International Summer School “Environment and Planetary Health” (Université Paris Est Créteil & University of Paris Cité) has won the “Best Poster” award. Congratulations to Savannah on the award-winning presentation!
© Barbara Mair
Environment and Climate Research Award | UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
Congratulations to Tatiana Konrad on winning the Environment and Climate Research Award 2024! (Environment and Climate Research Hub, University of Vienna)
© ECH/Markus Korenjak
EDited Collection | UNiversity of Exeter Press
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Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility
Edited by Tatiana Konrad
Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such phenomena as pollution and pandemics.
The book provides environmental and medical perspectives on air, in particular how it has historically been envisioned in U.S., Canadian and British cultural and literary narratives. The authors explore how these representations and the constructed meanings of air can help us understand the complex nature of air as it pertains to the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution and broader environmental degradation.
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Book Series | Michigan State University Press
Environment, Health, and Well-being
https://msupress.org/environment-health-and-well-being/
Environment, Health, and Well-being welcomes projects from new and established scholars, in and outside of academia, which make visible for audiences the timeliness and necessity of interdisciplinary research on the relationships between humanity and environments.
Submissions and Questions?
Please email the series editor Tatiana Konrad at
tatiana.konrad@univie.ac.at
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