Publications

Lena Pfeifer, M. A.

Monograph

Anthropocene Affordances: Scale, Narrative Form, and the Human in US-American Literature. transcript, 2025. [in print] 

Edited Volumes

Climate Changes Global Perspectives. Würzburg University Press, 2022. (with Molina Klingler and Hannah Nelson-Teutsch)

Literaturtheorie nach 2001. Matthes & Seitz, 2020. (with Patrick Durdel et al.)

Journal Articles and Book Contributions

“Anthropozänes Denken und das Kapitalozän in Richard Powers’ The Overstory (2018).” Literatur und Ökologische Praxis, edited by Leonhard F. Seidl and Enno Stahl, Verbrecher Verlag, 2023, pp. 139-53.

“Narrating Civilizational Collapse in the Anthropocene: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway’s The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (2014).” Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene, edited by Christopher Schliephake and Evi Zemanek, Lexington Books, 2023, pp. 155-67.

“Intimate Weavings: Tracing Urban and Corporeal Others in Sinéad Morrissey’s Poetry.” Zeichen des Fremden und ihre Metaisierung in ästhetischen Diskursen der Gegenwart, edited by Wolfgang Lukas and Martin Nies, SKMS: Schriften zur Kultur- und Mediensemiotik, vol. 9, 2023, pp. 115-34.

“Introduction.” Climate Changes Global Perspectives, edited by Lena Pfeifer, Molina Klingler, and Hannah Nelson-Teutsch. Würzburg University Press, 2022, pp. 9–16. (with Hannah Nelson-Teutsch)

“Is Nature About to (Be) End(ed)? Conceptions of the Environment and Moral Responsibility in the Anthropocene.” COPAS: Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2021, pp. 8-27. [special issue on “Embracing the Loss of Nature: Searching for Responsibility in an Age of Crisis”]

“Form.” Literaturtheorie nach 2001, edited by Patrick Durdel et al., Matthes & Seitz, 2020, pp. 34–40. (with Patrick Durdel and Annika M. Schadewaldt)

“Oberfläche.” Literaturtheorie nach 2001, edited by Patrick Durdel et al., Matthes & Seitz, 2020, pp. 92–99. (with Annika M. Schadewaldt)

“Umwelt.” Literaturtheorie nach 2001, edited by Patrick Durdel et al., Matthes & Seitz, 2020, pp. 118–24. (with Patrick Durdel)

“Identity Formation through Writing: Framing Ethopoietical Writing in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.” VZKF Student Research Papers, ed. Bernd Nies, No. 7/2019 [=http://www.kultursemiotik.com/nachwuchsportal/student-research-papers/ no-7-2019/].

Shorter Contributions

“Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger-Series.” Kindlers Literatur Lexikon, online database, J. B. Metzler, 2025. [forthcoming]

“A Short Commentary on Scale and Perspective.” Climate Changes Global Perspectives, edited by Lena Pfeifer, Molina Klingler, and Hannah Nelson-Teutsch, Würzburg University Press, 2022, pp. 135–37.