Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
Social Sciences (Environmental Studies)
Assistant Professor
Email: schneider-mayerson@yale-nus.edu.sg
Website: http://yale-nus.academia.edu/MatthewSchneiderMayerson
Assistant Professor Matthew Schneider-Mayerson’s 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 and co-editor of An Ecotopian Lexicon. He is currently engaged in research projects on reproductive choices in the age of climate change; climate fiction; empirical ecocriticism; sea-level rise in Southeast Asia; and the environmental dimensions of life in Singapore.
Environmental humanities
Climate fiction
Empirical ecocriticism
Ecotopianism
Environmental activism
Climate justice
Sea level rise
An Ecotopian Lexicon (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
“The Influence of Climate Fiction: An Empirical Survey of Readers,” Environmental Humanities 10.2 (2018).
“Some Islands Will Rise: Singapore in the Anthropocene,” Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, 4.1 (2017)
“Climate Change Fiction,” in American Literature in Transition: 2000 – 2010, edited by Rachel Greenwald Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
“Affect,” in Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics, edited by Imre Szeman, Patricia Yaeger and Jennifer Wenzel (Fordham University Press, 2017)
“Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk,” co-author, Science, Technology and Human Values, 41.3 (2016)
“From Politics to Prophecy: Environmental Quiescence and the ‘Peak-Oil’ Movement,” Environmental Politics, 22.5 (2013)
“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)
“Necrocracy in America: American Studies Begins to Address Fossil Fuels and Climate Change,” American Quarterly, 67.2 (June 2015)
“Fossilized in Houston,” public art project funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and DiverseWorks, February – June 2015, Houston, TX (fossilizedhouston.com)
“The Dan Brown Phenomenon: Conspiracism in Post-9/11 Popular Fiction,” Radical History Review, 111 (2011)
“‘Too Black’: Race in The ‘Dark Ages’ of the National Basketball Association, 1976-1979” The International Journal of Sport and Society, 1.1 (2010)
“What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel,” American Studies, 50.3/4 (2009)
Foundations of Environmental Humanities
Environmental Movements
Ecotopian Visions
Applied Environmental Research
Energy Humanities
SciFi and the Environment
Comparative Social Inquiry