Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: Toward an Integrated Approach to Environmental Narratives and Social Change -- Part I: Methods -- 1. Experimental Methods for the Environmental Humanities: Measuring Affects and Effects -- 2. Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Ecocriticism: Understanding Multidimensional Concepts, Experiences, and Processes -- 3. Exploring the Environmental Humanities through Film Production -- Part II: Case Studies -- 4. Does Climate Fiction Work?: An Experimental Test of the Immediate and Delayed Effects of Reading Cli-Fi -- 5. The Roles of Exemplar Voice, Compassion, and Pity in Shaping Audience Responses to Environmental News Narratives -- 6. The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker's "Am I Blue?" -- 7. Screening Waste, Feeling Slow Violence: An Empirical Reception Study of the Environmental Documentary Plastic China -- 8. All the World's a Warming Stage: Applied Theater, Climate Change, and the Art of Community-Based Assessments -- 9. Tracing the Language of Ecocriticism: Insights from an Automated Text Analysis of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment -- Part III: Reflections -- 10. Empirical Ecocriticism and the Future of (Eco)Narratology -- 11. Two Cheers for Empirical Ecocriticism -- 12. Empirical Ecocriticism and Modes of Persuasion -- 13. Stories about the Environment for Diverse Audiences: Insights from Environmental Communication -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors.