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. “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.
