Call for Reviewers

The new UC Press online, open access journal Media+Environment invites interested scholars to submit proposals for book and media reviews.

A preliminary list of mostly books is included below, but we are very open to other suggestions (such as films, games, and exhibitions) so long as there is a demonstrable connection to the journal’s defining intellectual nexus of media and environment. We anticipate a review length of 1,200 – 1,500 words. Submitted reviews will be evaluated for publication by the journal’s editors.

Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer or if you have any questions, please contact the journal’s Coordinating Editor Stephen Borunda (stephenborunda@ucsb.edu). Include the title of one (or more) of the books below and your mailing address in your email. Books will be assigned and mailed on a rolling basis.

Additionally, we welcome authors of relevant books to contact us so that we might add their titles to this ever-growing list.

• Appel, Hannah et al. 2015. Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press
• Bisonnette, Sylvia. 2019. Affect and Embodied Meaning in Animation: Becoming Animated. Boca Raton: CRC Press
• Booth, Graham et al. One Strange Rock (television series). National Geographic Network
• (*CLAIMED*) Chang, Alenda. 2019. Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press
• Cubitt, Sean. 2016. Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies. Durham, North Carolina:  Duke University Press
• Daggett, Cara. 2019. The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work. Durham, North Carolina:  Duke University Press
• Fay, Jennifer. 2018. Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Gaard, Greta. 2017. Critical Ecofeminism. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield
• Ivakhiv, Adrian. 2018. Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times. New York City: Punctum Books
• Kääpä, Pietari.  2018. Environmental Management of the Media: Policy, Industry, Practice. London/New York: Routledge
• Kaplan, E. Ann. 2016. Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and Fiction. North Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
• Maxwell, Richard et al. 2015. Media and the Ecological Crisis. London/New York: Routledge
• McCormack, Derek P. 2018. Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment (Elements). Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press
• Monani, Salma and Joni Adamson. 2016. Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos. London/New York: Routledge
• Monani, Salma and Sean Cubitt, et al. 2012. Ecocinema Theory and Practice. London/New York: Routledge
• Pallant, Chris. 2015. Animated Landscapes: History, Form and Function. London: Bloomsbury
• Parks, Lisa. 2018. Rethinking Media Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror. London/New York: Routledge
• Randerson, Janine. 2018. Weather As Medium: Toward a Meteorological Art. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press
• Ray, Sarah J. April 2020. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet (forthcoming). Berkeley, California: UC Press
• Ray, Sarah J. et al. 2017. Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press
• Ray, Sarah J. and Kevin Maier, eds. Critical Norths: Space, Nature, Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• Seymour, Nicole. 2015. Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination. Champaign: University of Illinois Press
• Seymour, Nicole. 2018. Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
• Schwoch, James. 2018. Wired into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier. Champaign: University of Illinois Press
• Smaill, Belinda. 2016. Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image. New York: SUNY Press
• (*CLAIMED*) Starosielski, Nicole and Janet Walker. 2016. Sustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment. London/New York: Routledge
• Taylor, Sarah M. 2019. Ecopiety: Green Media and the Dilemma of Environmental Virtue. New York: NYU Press
• Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt et al. 2017. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Michigan
• Vaughan, Hunter. 2019. Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret. New York City: Columbia University Press
• (*CLAIMED*) Wald, Sarah et al. 2019. Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press
• Weik von Mossner, Alexa. 2017. Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion and Environmental Narrative. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press
• Yusoff, Kathryn. 2018. A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press