News

The dates have been set for the Ninth ASLE BIennial Conference at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.  The conference will be held from June 21-26, 2011, so get out your calendars and save the dates!

The membership of ASLE has elected the 2010 Vice President and two new Executive Council (EC) members.  Vice President is Ursula Heise of Stanford University.  New EC members are Greta Gaard of University of Wisconsin-River Falls and Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands of York University in Toronto.  The ASLE president has also appointed a new Graduate Student Liaison to serve a two-year term on the council: Jill Anderson of the University of Mississippi.  Welcome to all the new members of the ASLE leadership!

At their annual business meeting in June 2009, the ASLE officers voted to approve the ASLE Strategic Plan that had been drafted, edited and reviewed by the officers in 2008.  This document will provide the ASLE leadership and membership with a blueprint for the coming years to advance the mission of the organization. To read the full text of the plan, which includes sections on ASLE's mission, finances, and specific goals and tasks the plan hopes to accomplish, go to http://www.asle.org/site/about/policies/strategicplan/.

At the banquet held at the end of the ASLE 2009 Biennial Conference, the winners of the ASLE Book and Paper Awards were announced.  Two of the four winners were in attendance to accept their awards, as were many of the judges of the four categories:  Scholarly and Creative Graduate Student Papers presented at the conference, and Scholarly and Creative Books written in 2007 or 2008.  To read more about the winners, see the Book and Paper Awards page.

The ASLE Graduate Student Handbook has been recently updated.   The Graduate Student Working Group has compiled a new list of programs and descriptions for schools (both in the U.S. and internationally) offering courses or degree programs in literature and environment and/or related fields.  The updated listings can be found in the Graduate Handbook here: http://www.asle.org/site/publications/graduate-handbook/programs/.