Tina Karen Pusse, Dr phil (University of Cologne 2004), is a Lecturer of German Literature at NUI Galway, and Associate Director of the Moore Institute. She has published in the areas of environmental humanities, gender studies, modern German poetry, autobiography, theory of laughter.
Heike Schwarz, Dr phil, studied American studies, politics and philosophy. She completed her Ph.D on the representation of psychiatric diagnoses at the University of Augsburg. She publishes in the fields of psychiatry and fiction, film studies, environmental humanities, ecopsychology, medical humanities, dementia and disability studies.
Rebecca Downes, PhD (NUI Galway 2017), works as an editor and independent scholar. Her dissertation on Mortality in late works by John Banville, Philip Roth and J. M. Coetzee was funded by the Irish Research Council. She has published on death in contemporary fiction, John Banville and Philip Roth.

Introduction ............................................................................................................. 9
Section 1 ¿ Literature
Feargal Ó Béarra
The Arboreal in Buile Shuibhne ............................................................................ 25
Nick Kankahainen
¿A Voice! A Voice!¿: The Foucauldian Silence of Mr Kurtz .............................. 41
Elena Campero
A Burst of Magic in the Shadows: The Woods¿ in Marosa
di Giorgiös Poetry .................................................................................................. 59
Maureen O¿Connor
¿Extremely Nervous on This Earth¿: Fairy Tales and Madness in Edna
O¿Brien¿s in the Forest ............................................................................................. 75
Jennifer Coralie
Kindling Gatherers and Lost Children: The Peopled Forests of Kerstin
Ekman ...................................................................................................................... 91
Helen R. Andretta
Scenes of Mad Pursuits in Allegories by Hawthorne and O¿Connor ............ 105
June-Ann Greeley
To Wander in the ¿Shadowed Land¿: The Fearsome Enchantment of
Tolkien¿s Woods ...................................................................................................... 119
Section 2 ¿ Visual Media
Pat Brereton
Eco-Sustainability, Nature, Gender and Trees: A Case Study of Avatar,
How Harry Became a Tree, and The Tree of Life .................................................. 145Brenda S. Gardenour Walter
At the Mercy of the Maddening Mother: Gothic and Medieval
Constructions of the Haunted Forest in Modern Horror Films ...................... 165
Emmanuelle Patrice
Eerie Encounters: The Bewitchery of the Dryads in the Film The Woods ...... 181
Michael Fuchs
When the Forest Is Not Quite What It Seems to Be: The Simulacral
Spaces of ¿Nature¿ in The Cabin in the Woods .................................................... 199
Fernando Pagnoni Berns
The Woods Are for the Poor (and Also for Monstrous Beings): Forests
as Liminal Spaces in Spanish Films ..................................................................... 219
Melissa Bianchi
Lost in the Woods: Procedurality and the Uncanny in The Legend of
Zelda Series ............................................................................................................. 233