Matthew Schneider-Mayerson
Social Sciences (Environmental Studies)
Assistant Professor
Email: schneider-mayerson@yale-nus.edu.sg
Website: yale-nus.academia.edu/MatthewSchneiderMayerson
Assistant Professor Matthew Schneider-Mayerson is an interdisciplinary scholar of environmental studies whose 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, co-editor of An Ecotopian Lexicon, and editor of Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspective on Life in Singapore. He is currently engaged in research projects on reproductive choices in the age of climate change; climate fiction; empirical ecocriticism; and sea-level rise in Southeast Asia.
Climate fiction
Environmental literature
Ecotopianism
Reproduction in the age of climate change
Climate justice
Environmental humanities
Sea-level rise in Southeast Asia
Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene: Environmental Perspectives on Life in Singapore (Ethos Books, 2020)
An Ecotopian Lexicon (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)
Peak Oil: Apocalyptic Environmentalism and Libertarian Political Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2015)
“Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Texts and Empirical Methods,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27.2 (2020)
“‘Just as in the Book’? The Influence of Literature on Readers’ Awareness of Climate Injustice and Perception of Climate Migrants,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27.2 (2020)
“Teaching the Environmental Humanities: International Perspectives and Practices,” Environmental Humanities 11.2 (2019)
“Whose Odds? The Absence of Climate Justice in American Climate Fiction,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 26.4 (2019)
“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,” 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)
“What Almost Was: The Politics of the Contemporary Alternate History Novel,” American Studies, 50.3/4 (2009)
Foundations of Environmental Humanities
Ecotopian Visions
The Ethics and Politics of Reproduction in the Age of Climate Change
Energy Humanities
Science Fiction and the Environment
Environmental Movements
Applied Environmental Research
Capstone in Environmental Studies
Comparative Social Inquiry
Literature and Humanities II