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 (Now Children's Museum of 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, two children, and one very soft grey cat.
E-mail: info@asle.org

Elected Officers (voting)

Paul Outka, University of Kansas
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 

Mark Long, Keene State College
Vice President
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

Joni Adamson, Arizona State University
Immediate Past 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

Executive Council (voting)

Allison Carruth, UCLA
Term: 2013-2015
Allison Carruth is an Assistant Professor of English at UCLA, where she is affiliated with the Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, Center for the Study of Women, and Institute for Society & Genetics. Her first book is entitled Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Her second book project examines how biotechnology has shaped and been shaped by contemporary environmental literature and visual culture. She is also co-authoring a book entitled “Literature and Food Studies” with Amy L. Tigner. Her articles have appeared in Modernism/Modernity, Modern Fiction Studies, parallax, and Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century.
Email: acarruth@humnet.ucla.edu

Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University Bloomington
Term: 2012-2014
Christoph Irmscher is Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington, teaching and writing about nineteenth-century American and Canadian literature and culture. His books include The Poetics of Natural History, an edition of the writings of John James Audubon, and the ecocritical anthology, A Keener Perception, co-edited with art historian Alan Braddock (Temple University).  He was a consultant and interviewee on the recent PBS documentary John James Audubon, In 2006, he co-taught an NEH Institute for Teachers on Hawthorne and Longfellow at Bowdoin College in Maine. With Christof Mauch (University of Munich, he co-edits the interdisciplinary book series “Transatlantic Perspectives” (Berghahn Books, NY).  His latest book, Louis Agassiz: How American Science Was Made will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2012.
Email: christoph.irmscher@gmail.com

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

Sarah Jaquette Ray, University of Alaska Southeast
Term: 2013-2015
Sarah Jaquette Ray is Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of the Geography and Environmental Studies Program at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, Alaska. She teaches and researches between the fields of environmental literature, environmental justice, and human geography. Her first book, The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in American Culture (2013), theorizes the role of disgust in environmental discourse, and she continues to think about environmentalist disgust in terms of trash, bodies, femininity, race, and space/place. Ray has been involved in ASLE since her first year as a graduate student, when a biennial conference was held at her graduate institution, University of Oregon, in 2005. Ray served as Graduate Student Liaison from 2009-2011, and is excited to serve on the EC again. When not working for UAS or ASLE, Ray likes being amazed by her daughter, Hazel.
Email: sjray@uas.alaska.edu

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

Voting Coordinators and Officers

Andrew C. Hageman, Luther College
Graduate Student Liaison (senior)
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

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

George Handley, Brigham Young University
International Liaison
George Handley is Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University. He is the author of New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott (Georgia 2007) and a work of creative nonfiction, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River (Utah 2010). He is also the co-editor of Caribbean Literature and the Environment (Virginia 2005) and Postcolonial Ecologies (Oxford 2011). His current book project is From Chaos to Cosmos: Literature as Ecotheology.
E-mail: george_handley@byu.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

 Andrew Husband, Texas Tech University
Graduate Student Liaison (junior)
Andrew is a doctoral candidate in English and a member of the Literature, Social Justice, and Environment (LSJE) initiative at Texas Tech University. His dissertation investigates the intersections of ecocritical theory, affect studies, and nature writing in the Western and Southwestern regions of the United States. He has published essays in Texas Theatre Journal, ISLE, and two edited collections on American novelist Cormac McCarthy. Currently, Andrew resides in Boston, Massachusetts and teaches part-time at Quincy College.
Email: andrew.husband@ttu.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 Idaho
ISLE Editor
Scott is Professor of English at the University of Idaho. 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@uidaho.edu