Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography
Over the last two decades, the global landscape of cultural production has been teeming with a cornucopia of fictional texts, in print, in live performance, and on the screen, engaging with the local and global impact of advanced human-induced climate change. In academia as well as in popular culture, this rapidly growing body of texts is now commonly referred to by the catchy linguistic portmanteau ‘cli-fi.’
That cli-fi has transitioned from a subcultural colloquialism circulating around the blogosphere into both a cultural buzzword and staple academic term alike can be seen, to name but a few examples from a long list, by its recent addition to the Oxford Dictionaries, its appearance in numerous academic conferences and publications, the emergence of the first how-to manuals such as Ellen B. Szabo’s Saving the World One Word at a Time: Writing Cli-Fi (2015), the establishment of Amy Brady’s monthly column, “Burning Worlds,” examining cli-fi in the Chicago Review of Books, and the increasing inclusion of cli-fi as a label in award classifications and marketing endeavors. (By SUSANNE LEIKAM AND JULIA LEYD)
Citation
American Studies Association. Cli-Fi in American Studies: A Research Bibliography
American Studies Association – Cli-Fi bibliography.
https://www.theasa.net/news/2017/cli-fi-american-studies-research-bibliography
Accessed 15 January 2026.
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