Presentations
Lena Pfeifer, M. A.
“Blue Resistance: Energy Infrastructures and Narrative Form.” Join the Orca Uprising! Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice, 11th Biennial EASLCE Conference, Utrecht University, Netherlands, April 14–17, 2026. [accepted]
“Human Agency Eroded: Geological Erosion and the Decentering of the Human Subject in Dale Pendell’s The Great Bay (2010).” Erosion – Creimeadh, ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference, University of Galway, Ireland / online, August 9, 2025.
“Weathering Atmospheric Change: The Quotidian Anthropocene and Scalar Shifts in Jenny Offill’s Weather (2020).” Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality, ASLE Biennial Conference, University of Maryland, USA / online, July 8–11, 2025.
“‘What the Landscape Taught’: Narrating Nuclear Testing and Anthropocene Landscapes.” Invited Lecture. Seminar “Narrating the Nuclear in US American Culture” (Annika M. Schadewaldt), Leipzig University, June 19, 2025.
“Reading Rocks: Geological Formations as Planetary Archives in Rebecca Solnit’s Savage Dreams (1994) and Dale Pendell’s The Great Bay (2010).” Archiving America/American Archives, 71st Annual Conference of the German Association for American Studies (DGfA), University of Siegen, June 12–14, 2025.
“Fossil(ized) Encounters: Thinking Towards Other-than-Human Life Forms Through Extinction in the Anthropocene.” Creaturely Encounters as Cultural Artefacts, 9th Biennial EASLCE Conference, University of Granada, Spain, September 12–15, 2022.
“Humanity Extinct: Future Fossils and the Ethics of Decentering the Human in the Anthropocene.” Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan / online, June 15–18, 2022.
“Future Perceived: A Planetary Ethics for the Anthropocene in Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2018).” Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories: Coming Nature(s) from the Antiquity to the Anthropocene, workshop organized by Dr. Dr. Christoph Schliephake and Professor Evi Zemanek, online, February 24–25, 2022.
“Die Macht des Menschen und die Kraft des Menschlichen im Anthropozän.” Richtige Literatur im Falschen VI: Literatur und Ökologische Praxis, Jüdisches Museum Franken, Fürth, September 9 – October 2, 2021.
“Scaling Deep Time: On the Ethical Perception of Temporality in Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2018).” EmergencE/-Y, ASLE Virtual Conference, online, July 6 – August 6, 2021.
