‘Intermedial Ecocriticism’, by Professor Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University)

Date: Wednesday 4th October, 5pm.

All too often overlooked in the reports on recent alarms about climate change is more thoughtful attention to how these alarms get dispersed through scientific papers, news reports, fictional stories, films, graphic novels, and videogames. Arguing that different media carry the potential to engage audiences in vitally different ways, this talk presents a powerful case for giving experts in media and intermediality a seat at the table of Environmental Humanities. Bringing an intermedial approach to the study of a wide range of ecomedia, the presentation adds a much-needed perspective to the larger discourse around representation and reception within the environmental humanities: an explicit interest in the roles of media and mediation. It presents a comprehensive theory and method that allows us to systematically compare different media products representing climate change and other environmental crises without losing sight of their specific affordances and potential ecological agency.

Niklas Salmose is Professor of English at Linnaeus University, Sweden, and a full member of the Linnaeus University Center of Intermedial and Multimodal Studies. He is the co-coordinator for the new graduate school MIDWorld, engaging international researchers and doctoral students in an investigation of how intermediality/multimodality figures in the rapid digitization of society. Salmose has published extensively on nostalgia, modernism, F. Scott Fitzgerald, intermediality and in the past five years on environmental humanities. Publications include several chapters in the Routledge textbook Intermedial Studies: An Introduction to Meaning Across Media), Contemporary Nostalgia (2019), Transmediations. Communication across Media Borders (2019), Cultural Comets (2022), F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Composite Biography (2023), chapters on intermedial ecocriticism and sonification of modernist fiction in the Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality (2023), and most recently the co-authored monograph Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Climate Crisis through Art and Media (2023).

Jul 10, 2025

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‘Intermedial Ecocriticism’, by Professor Niklas Salmose (Linnaeus University)