Administration

Amy McIntyre
Managing Director
Amy McIntyre has served as the Managing Director for ASLE since October, 2004. She previously worked with the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture and the New England Center for Civic Life at Franklin Pierce University (NH). She also worked for six years at the Children’s Museum of Portsmouth (NH). She received her B.A. from Alma College (MI), and her M.Ed. from the University of New Hampshire. Amy resides in Keene, NH with her husband Bill and her children Nora and Daniel.
E-mail: info@asle.org

Elected Officers (voting)

Joni Adamson, Arizona State University
President
Joni Adamson is Associate Professor of English and Environmental Humanities in the School of Letters and Sciences, Senior Research Scholar at the Global Institute of Sustainability, and Program Faculty in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology at Arizona State University. She is the author of American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism and coeditor (with Mei Mei Evans and Rachel Stein) of The Environmental Justice Reader. Her recent essays have appeared in The Journal of Transnational American Studies; ECOZON@; MELUS; Transformations; The Blackwell Companion to American Literature and Culture; Teaching North American Environmental Literature; Environmental Justice; and The Tamkang Review. With co-editor Kimberly Ruffin, she is currently at work on a collection of essays to be called Ecological Citizenship and Belonging in a Transcultural World. She teaches courses that focus on global ethnic literatures and film, ecocriticism and environmental justice, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and food justice.
E-mail: Joni.Adamson@asu.edu

Paul Outka, University of Kansas
Vice President
Paul Outka is Associate Professor of English and courtesy faculty in Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas.  He teaches courses in 19th century U.S. literature and culture, literature and science, American poetry, African American Literature, and green cultural studies.  His research interests include ecocriticism, critical race theory, trauma studies, aesthetic theory, and the posthuman.  In addition to a number of essays, he is the author of Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance (Palgrave 2008), which won the 2009 ASLE biennial prize for ecocriticism.  Currently he is working on two book projects, tentatively entitled The Nineteenth-Century Posthuman, and Western Landscapes and the Dreamwork of Whiteness.
E-mail: paul.outka@ku.edu 

Ursula Heise, Stanford University
Immediate Past President
Ursula K. Heise is Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. She is also affiliated with the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Program in Science, Technology & Society. Her major academic interests focus on environmental culture, literature and art in the Americas, Western Europe and Japan, and on theories of modernization, postmodernization and globalization. Other areas of interest include media theory, literature and science, science fiction, and narrative theory. Her book Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative, and Postmodernism appeared from Cambridge University Press in 1997, and Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global from Oxford University Press in 2008. Nach der Natur: Das Artensterben und die moderne Kultur (After Nature: Species Extinction and Modern Culture) will appear with the German publisher Suhrkamp in 2010. She is also working on a book provisionally entitled The Avantgarde and the Forms of Nature.
E-mail: uheise@stanford.edu

Executive Council (voting)

Greta Gaard, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Term: 2010-2012
An Associate Professor of English, Greta Gaard teaches critical thinking and writing about environmental literature, the politics of food, interspecies justice and environmental health through such courses as Expository Writing, Business Writing, Environmental Rhetoric, Gender Studies, and the Literature of Environmental Justice. She is author of The Nature of Home (Arizona, 2007) and Ecological Politics: Ecofeminists and the Greens (Temple, 1998), editor of Ecofeminism: Women, Animals, Nature (Temple, 1993), and co-editor of Ecofeminist Literary Criticism (Illinois, 1998). Her current scholarship focuses on feminist ecocriticism, ecopedagogy, children's environmental literature, and service learning (everything from picking up garbage to ending homelessness). This photo shows Greta and Jasmine Huang, one of her Ecofeminist Literary Criticism students at Tamkang University, picking up trash on Guan-Yin Mountain as part of our service learning.
Email: greta.gaard@uwrf.edu

Stephanie LeMenager, University of California, Santa Barbara
Term: 2012-2014
Stephanie LeMenager is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches in English and Environmental Studies. She served as Director of UCSB's American Cultures and Global Contexts Center from 2007-2010. LeMenager's first book, Manifest and Other Destinies, won the 2005 Thomas J. Lyon Award for Best Book in Western Literary Studies. She is a co-editor of Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2011) and author of several articles and book chapters treating US/American Studies and environmental criticism. She is completing a book about the cultures of petroleum in twentieth-century North America.
Email: slemen@english.ucsb.edu

Anthony Lioi, The Juilliard School
Term: 2011-2013
Anthony Lioi is an assistant professor of Liberal Arts and English and Director of Writing and Public Speaking at the Juilliard School, where he also directs the Writing Center. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a Ph.D. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He teaches academic and professional writing, contemporary American literature, and cultural studies. His research interests include urban natural history, ecofeminism, ethnicity and the environment, ecotheology, popular culture, pedagogy, and the history of the essay as a genre. He has published essays in journals such as MELUS, Feminist Studies, ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, ISLE, and CrossCurrents. He has contributed chapters to Early Modern Ecostudies, Comics and the City, and Coming into Contact. He was the guest editor for “Teaching Earth,” a special issue of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. A native and resident of New Jersey, he still considers himself a citizen of Providence. He has a particular fondness for greyhounds, swamp dragons, and the stars of the winter sky.
E-mail: anthony.lioi@googlemail.com

Kimberly N. Ruffin, Roosevelt University
Term: 2011-2013

Kimberly N. Ruffin is an Assistant Professor of English at Roosevelt University where she teaches courses on ecological, Africana, urban, and global literature and culture. She is the author of Black on Earth: African-American Ecoliterary Traditions, and her writing has also appeared in Land and Power: Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans, Black Geographies and the Politics of Place, African-American Review, MELUS, Obsidian III, and Green Horizon Magazine. Among her research interests are exploring the concept of ecological citizenship and complementing necessary precautionary discourse with celebratory, inclusive dialogue and action. She enjoys the many wonders of Chicagoland’s built and natural environments including service-learning opportunities, frog-watching, and power-walking on the lakefront.
Email: kruffin@roosevelt.edu

Cate Sandilands, York University
Term: 2010-2012
Cate Sandilands is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. She is the author of The Good-Natured Feminist: Ecofeminism and the Quest for Democracy (Minnesota, 1999), and co-editor of This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment (UBC, 2004) and Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (Indiana, 2010). Her current work concerns the relations between and among landscape, environmental literature, and public life, including an in-progress book on Canadian lesbian author and activist Jane Rule. She also has a particular fondness for boreal orchids.
Email: essandi@yorku.ca

Voting Coordinators and Officers

Jill Anderson, Middle Tennessee State University
Graduate Student Liaison (senior)
Born and raised in northern Indiana, Jill E. Anderson earned her BA in American literature and history at Purdue University in 2005 and her MA in 2007 and PhD in 2011 from the University of Mississippi. Her dissertation was on queer ecology and the literature of the 1960s. She is currently Assistant Professor in the English Department at Middle Tennessee State University. In addition to her interests in queer theory, ecofeminism, and environmental justice, she also studies the Beat Generation and the counterculture, particularly the women Beats, Native American literature, and the influence of food and media in literature. Her non-academic activities include running, biking, practicing and teaching yoga, experimenting in the kitchen, and crafting of all kinds.
Email: drjillelizabeth@gmail.com

Salma Monani, Gettysburg College
Diversity Coordinator
Salma Monani is Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College’s Environmental Studies department. Her research and teaching include explorations in literary ecocriticism and cine-ecocriticism. She is also interested in the pragmatics of just sustainability. Current projects include a special edited collection, “Coloring the Environmental Lens: Cinema, New Media, and Just Sustainability” for Environmental Communication: The Journal of Nature and Culture, and The Ecocinema Reader, co-edited with Sean Cubitt and Steve Rust. She is film review editor for Green Theory and Praxis and moderator for the online scholarly community, Ecomedia Studies.
E-mail: smonani@gettysburg.edu

Nonvoting Coordinators and Officers

Karla Armbruster, Webster University
Executive Secretary
Karla Armbruster is associate professor and chair of the English Department at Webster University in St. Louis, MO, where she teaches American literature, interdisciplinary studies, and professional writing. She also co-chairs the environmental studies program. Karla's primary research area is ecocriticism and environmental literature, and, with Kathleen R. Wallace, she is editor of Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 2002). Most recently, she has become very interested in animal studies and is working on a book about representations of dogs in literature and popular culture.
E-mail: armbruka@webster.edu

Wes Berry, Western Kentucky University
International Liaison
Wes Berry teaches American literature at Western Kentucky University, a few hollers away from Mammoth Cave National Park. In the spring of 2008, he will teach at Chongqing Technology and Business University in southwestern China. His scholarly interests include the literature of the U.S. South and the nexus of the following subjects: agriculture, toxicity, religion, food, technology, and environmental education. He loves eating new foods, hiking, cutting and splitting wood, and repairing his 100-year-old house.
E-mail: wes.berry@wku.edu

Andrew C. Hageman, Luther College
Graduate Student Liaison (junior)
Andy is currently an ACM-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in English and Environmental Studies at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, where he’s teaching courses in early American literature, eco_media, and ecology and technology in literature. He recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis in English with a designated emphasis in Critical Theory. Andy’s research explores intersections of machines, ecology, and ideology in literature and film. He has published a number of eco pieces, among them the essay “When Nature Calls; Or, Why Ecocriticism Needs Althusserian Ideology” in the 2010 issue of Polygraph. He is currently refining eco_media course designs and doing pedagogical strategizing; he’d love to hear from other people interested in advancing how we work with ecology, film, and digital media in the classroom.
E-mail: hagean03@luther.edu

Tom Hillard, Boise State University
Book Review Editor, ISLE
Tom J. Hillard is an Assistant Professor of English at Boise State University, where he teaches courses on early American literature, nature writing, western American literature, and the literary Gothic. He is also Co-editor of the Boise State University Western Writers Series. His current research focuses on the intersections between fear, nature writing, and the literary Gothic in American literature and culture. He recently edited and compiled and online teacher’s guide to the book The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine, edited by Barry Lopez (Milkweed Editions 2007). From 2005-2007, he served as one of ASLE’s Graduate Student Liaisons, and from 2008-2010 was an Executive Council member.
E-mail: thomashillard@boisestate.edu

Mark Long, Keene State College
Graduate Student Mentoring Program Coordinator
Mark is professor of English and American Studies at the University System of New Hampshire's Keene State College. He has published widely on American literature, poetry, and environmental literature. In addition to his work as the Coordinator of the Mentoring Program, Mark is an associate editor for the English studies journal Pedagogy, and co-founder and co-coordinator of the Calderwood Insitute on the Teaching of Writing at Keene State. His new book, Teaching North American Environmental Literature, was published in 2009 by the Modern Language Association of America.
E-Mail: mlong@keene.edu

Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Awards Coordinator
Tom Lynch is an assistant professer at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he teaches American literature, ecocriticism, and the literature of place. His book Xerophilia: Ecocritical Explorations in Southwestern Literature was published by Texas Tech University Press. He is currently at work on a book titled Outback/Out West, an ecocritical comparative study of the literature of the Australian Outback and the American West as seen through the lenses of postcolonial and bioregional theory. He is also co-editing two scholarly anthologies: the first, co-edited with Susan Maher, is on Loren Eiseley, and the second, with Cheryll Glotfelty and Karla Armbruster, is on bioregional literary criticism.
E-mail: tlynch2@unl.edu

Catherine Meeks, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
ASLE News Editor
Catherine Meeks is a Lecturer of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she teaches undergraduate courses in rhetoric and composition and Western Humanities and explores the Tennessee River. She studied Environmental Writing while earning a Masters of Science in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana-Missoula, and continues to write creative nonfiction. Her current research and writing interests include exploring intersections of race, landscape, agriculture, and foodways, particularly in the American South. Since August of 2008, she has lived at the base of Lookout Mountain with her husband, Alex Quinlan, and dog, Seamus, happily with a hiking trail out the back door.
Email: catherine-meeks@utc.edu

Tonia Payne, Nassau Community College - SUNY
Professional Liaison Coordinator
Tonia L. Payne received her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is an associate professor at Nassau Community College (of the State University of New York), where she teaches composition and a variety of literature electives. Her Composition I courses have an ecological focus, and among the electives she teaches is Nature and Literature, a course she proposed and shepherded through the approval process. Most of her scholarly work has focused on Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings, but no matter which author or text has caught her attention, her inclination is always decidedly ecocritical. Among her scholarly publications are “‘We Are Dirt: We Are Earth’: Ursula Le Guin and the Problem of Extra-Terrestrialism” (in Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism) and “How Do We See Green? Ursula K. Le Guin’s SF/Fantasy and the Environmental Paradigm Shift” (in Falas da Terra no século XXI: What Do We See Green?). She is a long-time member of ASLE.
E-mail: tlpayne@verizon.net

Scott Slovic, University of Nevada, Reno
ISLE Editor
Scott is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. His specializes in American literature, comparative literature, environmental literature, and ecocriticism. His publications include What's Nature Worth? Narrative Expressions of Environmental Values (coedited with Terre Satterfield). University of Utah Press, 2004; The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003 (coedited with Michael P. Branch), University of Georgia Press, 2003; Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest. University of Arizona Press, 2001. He received a BA from Stanford, and an MA and PhD from Brown. Scott is very active in the international environmental literature community and has helped spread ASLE’s mission to many different countries.
E-mail: slovic@unr.edu

Priscilla Solis Ybarra, University of North Texas
Past Diversity Coordinator
E-mail: Priscilla.Ybarra@unt.edu

Advisory Board (Non-Voting)

Rick Bass, Troy, Montana
Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno
Paul T. Bryant
Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
SueEllen Campbell, Colorado State University
Terrell Dixon, University of Houston
John Elder, Middlebury College
Cheryll Glotfelty, University of Nevada, Reno
Harold Fromm, University of Arizona
William Howarth, Princeton University
Annette Kolodny, University of Arizona (Retired)
Michael Kowalewski, Carleton College
Glen A. Love, University of Oregon (retired)
Thomas J. Lyon, Utah State University
Leo Marx, MIT, Emeritus
Carolyn Merchant, University of California, Berkeley
David Robertson, University of California, Davis
Scott Slovic, University of Nevada, Reno
Barton Levi St. Armand, Brown University
Louise Westling, University of Oregon
Ann Zwinger, Colorado College