Author Biography
Michael Fuchs is a postdoc in the project "Delocating Mountains: Cinematic Landscapes and the Alpine Model" (FWF project no. P 32994) at the University of Innsbruck. He has co-edited 6 books, including ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity (Intellect Books, 2013), Intermedia Games--Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality (Bloomsbury, 2019), Fantastic Cities: American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (UP Mississippi, 2022), and The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture (Brill, 2024) and special issues/thematic clusters for the European Journal of American Studies (Animals on American Television; vol. 13, no. 1, 2018), Arbeiten aus Anglistik & Amerikanistik (Science in Popular Audio-Visual Media; vol. 47, no. 2, 2022), Extrapolation (Beyond Petromodernity; vol. 64, no. 1, 2023), English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts (Human Generations and the Environmental Crisis in Literature, Film, and Other Media; vol. 10, 2023), and Comparative American Studies (Animals in the American Popular Imagination, vol. 21, nos. 1-2, 2024). His 60+ book chapters and journal articles have appeared in publications such as The Journal of Popular Culture, the Journal of Popular Television, Configurations, the Popular Culture Review, the European Journal of American Culture, the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (U of Minnesota P, 2022), Drawing the Past, Volume 1: Comics and the Historical Imagination in the United States (UP Mississippi, 2022), Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out (Palgrave, 2020), Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss (Lexington, 2020), The Cambridge History of Science Fiction (CUP, 2019), Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes (Palgrave, 2019), B-Movie Gothic (Edinburgh UP, 2018), Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Routledge, 2018), and Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock (McGill-Queen's UP, 2018).