COPY EDITOR Michael Dunn
Contact
Tel.: +49 6221 54-15908
michael.dunn@capas.uni-heidelberg.de
Michael Dunn is a Copy Editor at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and PostApocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), Heidelberg University.
He is currently a PhD candidate at Heidelberg University working on environmental apocalypses in modern classic literature entitled Earthly Ends: Reading through Environmental Apocalypse. His research interests focus on climate culpability and justice, extractivism, literary vampires, ecoGothic, and the interconnected crossroads between colonialism and climate change. He is also a translator, editor, poet, writer of fictions and songwriter performing and writing under the moniker M. P. Dunn.
Publications
Dunn, Michael. “Embodying Posthumanist EcoGothic: A Practical Approach to Mourning in Modes of Consumption.” In Posthumanism in Practice Revisited, edited by Christine Daigle, Matt Haylar, and Danielle Sands. London: Bloomsbury, 2026.
Dunn, Michael. “Hyperlocal EcoGothic: E. F. Benson’s ‘The Man Who Went Too Far’.” In The Routledge Companion to Global Horror, edited by Stacey Abbott, Adam Lowenstein, Roger Luckhurst, and Kristopher Woofter. Abingdon: Routledge, 2026. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Global-Horror/Abbo…
Dunn, Michael. “Poetry.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Millennialism and Apocalypticism, edited by Andrew Crome and Tristan Sturm, 221–233. London: Bloomsbury, 2025. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bloomsbury-handbook-of-apocalypticism-and-millennialism-9781350421615/
Dunn, Michael, Thomas Arnold, and Mike Ryder. “Why Warhammer Matters.” Sci Phi Journal, December 13, 2024. https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2024/12/13/why-warhammer-matters/
Dunn, Michael and Robert Kirsch. “Herbert Marcuse: The influence of German emigration on American intellectual life: philosophy and sociology.” Contemporary Political Theory (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-024-00720-1
Dunn, Michael. “Immortality Immemorial: Colonial Vampires and the Climate Crisis.” In Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film, Media and Literature, edited by Steve Rawle and Martin Hall, 152–168. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-0505-2
Dunn, Michael. “Tolkien’s Triptych: Ecological Uncanny, Double Dualism Personified, and the Language of the Literary Gothic.” In Tolkien and the Gothic, edited by Will Sherwood, 76–90. Edinburgh: Luna Press Publishing, 2024. https://www.tolkiensociety.org/store/tolkien-and-the-gothic/
Dunn, Michael. “5 Things with Research Associate Michael Dunn, CAPAS: On Navigating the Ends of Worlds in October.” Commonplace, October 13, 2023. https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.4fd4b219
Dunn, Michael and Jenny Stümer. Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds: Understanding Apocalyptic Transformation. Berlin: DeGruyter, 2023. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110787009/html?lang=en&srsltid=AfmBOoqmnKhh6Xdj0f9ymWY5iBUtlDmzMCdSLQiWh7TTxTW-sYvr0tw1
Dunn, Michael. “Life in Plastic: It’s not Fantastic; Synthetic Entanglements in Heather Davis’s Plastic Matter (2022).” Review in Apocalyptica 2 (2023): 184–189. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.apoc.2022.2.24760.
