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ASLE is the country's premier membership organization in the field of literature and environment.  ASLE encourages and sponsors lectures, discussions, and panels at scholarly conferences, and publishes ASLE News (our online member newsletter) and the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, both twice a year.  In odd years the organization conducts a biennial conference that draws participants and speakers from around the globe.   We offer financial assistance and sponsorship of several smaller symposia in non-conference years.  ASLE has an active membership composed of educators, students, scientists and independent scholars.  We currently have approximately 1000 members, including international members from 23 countries.

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Mission Statement

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) was founded in 1992 to promote the exchange of ideas and information about literature and other cultural representations that consider human relationships with the natural world.  The name of the organization is meant to be as inclusive as possible, encompassing any text that illuminates the ways humans perceive and interact with the nonhuman environment.

An active and energetic community, ASLE encourages and seeks to facilitate both traditional and innovative scholarly approaches to environmental literature, ecocritical approaches to all cultural representations of nature, and interdisciplinary environmental research, including discussions among literary scholars and environmental historians, economists, journalists, philosophers, psychologists, art historians, scientists, and scholars in other relevant disciplines.

In addition to encouraging new nature writing, we foster contact between scholars and environmentally engaged artists, including writers, photographers, painters, musicians, and filmmakers.  We also promote the incorporation of environmental concerns and awareness into pedagogical theory and practice.

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For information on ASLE, or specific questions or inquiries, please contact:

Amy McIntyre, Managing Director
ASLE
P.O. Box 502
Keene, NH 03431
Phone & Fax:  603-357-7411
info@asle.org