Materiality of Air

Tatiana Konrad is the principal investigator of “Air and Environmental Health in the (Post-)COVID-19 World,” a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, and editor of the “Environment, Senses and Emotions” book series at University of Exeter Press and the “Environment, Health, and Well-being” book series at Michigan State University Press. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Marburg. Tatiana is the author and editor of numerous books, including Imagining Air: Cultural Axiology and the Politics of Invisibility (UEP, 2023).

• Introduction: Elemental, Material, and Representational Air Tatiana KonradDOI: 10.47788/LPKH9476 1. Breathing Violence: Airborne Plastics, Materiality, and Anthropogenic Harm Savannah SchauflerDOI: 10.47788/AQXL6360 2. Firewood: Carbon-Neutral Fuel, or Threat to Human Health? Gordon M. SayreDOI: 10.47788/VDIW4616 3. Survival of the Most Collaborative: Climate Justice as a Logics for Flows of Air Sheena WilsonDOI: 10.47788/PPKM2225 4. A Microbiological Menace: Killer Spores and Toxic Pollen in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction Natalie DederichsDOI: 10.47788/VOKG2890 5. Estranging Air in Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation” Brent Ryan BellamyDOI: 10.47788/LHBQ7761 6. Thinking over the Airwaves: Immediate Connection in Geoff Ryman’s Air and Tade Thompson’s The Wormwood Trilogy Arthur RoseDOI: 10.47788/OMXB23617. A Deep, Slow, Strenuous Breath: Art in the Shadows of Capitalist World-Ecologies Raphaelle OcchiettiDOI: 10.47788/CHLZ71988. Creative Writing: On Air Davina QuinlivanDOI: 10.47788/KMJO1117