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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

@schneidermayers.bsky.social
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Professor at Rice University. Climate media, environmental literature, cats, basketball. bit.ly/profmsm

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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
...and, by comparing these results to my previous research on popular films, we suggest that there is an unspoken “cultural climate consensus” across contemporary media about how often climate change can or should be included in fictional narratives.
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We introduce a typology of "strategic environmental narratives" that might be useful to both critics and practitioners...
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
When present, environmental problems are mostly marginalized and minimized; structural culprits—governments, corporations, and the wealthy—are rarely assigned responsibility; and pro-environmental actions and behaviors are rarely modeled.
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We found that climate change exists in the story world of just 10.1% of New Yorker stories, while a different environmental problem (freshwater pollution, marine pollution, air pollution, deforestation, species extinction / biodiversity loss, or toxic waste) exists in 15.6%.
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
To do so we developed the Strategic Environmental NarrativeS (SENS) codebook - which contains 20 to 33 items - and applied it to 474 (!) short stories published between 2014 and 2023 in @thenewyorker.bsky.social, the most prestigious Anglophone literary magazine in the world.
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Very exciting to be teaching, at the end of my course on "Ecotopian Visions," "The Anthropussy: An Ecolesbian Manifesto," a zine that four brilliant students created as their final project for this course three years ago, and recently published in the Journal of Lesbian Studies 💚 #ecocrit #envhum
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Nice to see a new review of Empirical Ecocriticism: Environmental Narratives for Social Change in the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism 💚
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