Michael Fuchs

@uibk.ac.at

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies
University of Innsbruck

Michael Fuchs


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RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Literature and Literary Theory
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347

Scholar Citations

11

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RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Monstrous Reproduction, Monstrous Evolution, and Extinction Anxiety in Steve Alten's MEG Books
    M Fuchs, M Phillips
    Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction , 2026
    2026
  • Atlantic Overflows: Bull Sharks, Inland Incursions, and Fictions of Containment
    M Fuchs
    Atlantic Studies: Global Currents 23 (2), 147-159 , 2026
    2026
  • Stories of Disaster as Sites of Mitigation: Knowledge Production and Affective Engagement in the Narrativization of Nuclear Incidents in Different Media
    M Butler, S Farzin, M Fuchs, AK Hornidge, U Schimank
    Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 64 (1), 1-25 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 2
  • Affective Necropolitics, Procedural Necrorhetorics, and the US-Mexico Border in the Call of Duty Series
    M Fuchs
    American, British and Canadian Studies 45, 46-71 , 2025
    2025
  • Alpine Winter Tourism, Global Warming, and Viral Outbreaks: Re-Watching Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies during the Covid-19 Pandemic
    M Fuchs
    The Post-Zombie: The Current and Future State of the Walking Dead, 36-47 , 2025
    2025
  • Film, Memory, and Intermediality: Exploring the Andes in La cordillera de los sueños (2019)
    M Fuchs, AM Marini
    Global Mountain Cinema, 243-260 , 2025
    2025
  • Coming to Terms with a Crisis: Introduction
    M Butler, S Farzin, M Fuchs, F Hempel
    Coming to Terms with a Crisis: Cultural Engagements with COVID-19, 9-19 , 2025
    2025
  • Depicting SARS-CoV-2: A Weird Icon of (and for) the Anthropocene
    M Fuchs, M Butler
    Coming to Terms with a Crisis: Cultural Engagements with COVID-19, 39-59 , 2025
    2025
  • Coming to Terms with a Crisis: Cultural Engagements with COVID-19
    M Butler, S Farzin, M Fuchs, F Hempel
    2025
  • @Night@Home: YouTubifying Late-Night Television during the Early Stages of the Covid-19 Pandemic
    M Butler, M Fuchs
    Covid-19 in Film and Television: Watching the Pandemic, 60-74 , 2025
    2025
  • The Vertical Dimension of the American West: Mining and the Media Archaeology of Navajo Land
    M Fuchs, C Quendler
    Entanglements, Narratives, and the Environment: Inter-American Perspectives … , 2024
    2024
  • Nuclear Pasts and Environmental Futures: Radioactivity and Gothic Materiality in the Television Series Chernobyl
    M Butler, M Fuchs
    The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture, 156-171 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Introduction
    M Fuchs, AM Marini
    The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture, 1-11 , 2024
    2024
  • The Gothic and Twenty-First-Century American Popular Culture
    AM Marini, M Fuchs
    Brill , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Animals in the American Imagination
    M Fuchs, AM Marini
    Comparative American Studies: An International Journal 21 (1-2), 1-12 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Digital America: Introduction
    M Fuchs
    JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 4 (2), 215-221 , 2023
    2023
  • Videogames in Horror Movies: Remediation, Metalepsis, Interface Effects, and Fear of the Digital
    M Fuchs
    JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies 4 (2), 243-267 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • The Slow Apocalypse in The Low, Low Woods
    M Fuchs, AM Marini
    English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts 10, 101-117 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 4
  • Introduction: Human Generations and the Environmental Crisis in Literature, Film, and Other Media
    M Fuchs, R Maierhofer
    English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts 10, 7-18 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 2
  • Necropolitics and Pandemic Premediation in The Fall's Neo-Western State of Exception
    AM Marini, M Fuchs
    The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship 13 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Cooking with Hannibal: Food, Liminality and Monstrosity in Hannibal
    M Fuchs
    European Journal of American Culture 34 (2), 97-112 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 30
  • Playing Serial Imperialists: The Failed Promises of BioWare's Video Game Adventures
    M Fuchs, V Erat, S Rabitsch
    The Journal of Popular Culture 51 (6), 1476-1499 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 26
  • Intermedia Games—Games Inter Media: Video Games and Intermediality
    M Fuchs, J Thoss
    2019
    Citations: 19
  • "It's Only Cannibalism If We're Equals": Carnivorous Consumption and Liminality in Hannibal
    M Fuchs, M Phillips
    Quarterly Review of Film and Video 35 (6), 614-629 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 15
  • PandemIcons? The Medical Scientist as Iconic Figure in Times of Crisis
    M Butler, S Farzin, M Fuchs
    Configurations 29 (4), 435-451 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 13
  • "What if Nature Were Trying to Get Back at Us?": Animals as Agents of Nature's Revenge in Horror Cinema
    M Fuchs
    American Revenge Narratives, 177-206 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 11
  • When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth? Digital Animals, Simulation, and the Return of 'Real Nature' in the Jurassic Park Movies
    M Fuchs
    On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 2 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 11
  • "They are a fact of life out here": The Ecocritical Subtexts of Three Early-Twenty-First-Century Aussie Animal Horror Movies
    M Fuchs
    Animal Horror Cinema: Genre, History and Criticism, 37-57 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 11
  • "My name is Alan Wake. I'm a writer.": Crafting Narrative Complexity in the Age of Transmedia Storytelling
    M Fuchs
    Game On, Hollywood! Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema … , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 11
  • ConFiguring America: Iconic Figures, Visuality, and the American Identity
    M Fuchs, M Phillips, K Rieser
    Intellect Books , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 11
  • "A Horror Story That Came True": Metalepsis and the Horrors of Ontological Uncertainty in Alan Wake
    M Fuchs
    Monsters & the Monstrous 3 (1), 95-107 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 11
  • A Different Kind of Monster: Uncanny Media and Alan Wake's Textual Monstrosity
    M Fuchs
    Contemporary Research on Intertextuality in Video Games, 39-53 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 10
  • A Horrific Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Simulacra, Simulations, and Postmodern Horror
    M Fuchs
    Landscapes of Postmodernity: Concepts and Paradigms of Critical Theory, 71-90 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 10
  • "Is this really all they had to worry about?" Past, Present, and Future Hauntings in The Last of Us
    M Fuchs
    AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 44 (1), 67-82 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 9
  • Of Blitzkriege and Hardcore BDSM: Revisiting Nazi Sexploitation Camps
    M Fuchs
    Nazisploitation: The Nazi Image in Low-Brow Film and Culture, 279-294 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 9
  • Placing America: American Culture and its Spaces
    M Fuchs, MT Holub
    transcript Verlag , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 8
  • Livin' Da Dream? Playing Black, Illusions of Meritocracy, and Narrative Constraints in Sports Video Game Story Modes
    M Fuchs
    European Journal of American Studies 16 (3) , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 6
  • Playing (with) the Nonhuman: The Animal Avatar in Bear Simulator
    M Fuchs
    Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and … , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 6
  • Imagining the Becoming-Unextinct of Megalodon: Spectral Animals, Digital Resurrection, and the Vanishing of the Human
    M Fuchs
    Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out, 107-123 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 6
  • Part of Our Cultural History: Fan-Creator Relationships, Restoration, and Appropriation
    M Fuchs, M Phillips
    A Galaxy Here and Now: Historical and Cultural Readings of Star Wars, 208-237 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 6