Call for Pitches: Zoom In (A Teaching Series for ASLE)

ASLE is an organization full of brilliant teachers as well as scholars, and we have much we can learn from each other. ASLE members are invited to contribute to a series of teaching posts for the ASLE website in which they explore the pedagogical possibilities of a text by focusing on one detail at a time. Each post will put a handful of teachers in conversation with each other about the same text, giving ...

In continuing to foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally after our first Spotlight Series and our first virtual biennial conference in 2021, ASLE is continuing the Spotlight Series in 2022. The series will be offered both in live video format with audience, and in a recorded format for viewing and listening afterward, will launch in Spring 2022, and continue monthly. We presently anticipate four Spotlight episodes.

As in 2021 (View the 2021 Spotlight Episodes for reference), each event will feature ...

The Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University, Houston-based Literal Publishing, and Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) are happy to announce a new collaboration initiative, Planet Now! / Planeta herido: una conversación.  The project seeks to foster collaboration and public dialogue about environmental issues and promote equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in just environmental practices. The first offering from Planet Now! / Planeta herido: una conversación is an interview between Gisela Heffes and Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin, author of ...

2022 ASLE Symposium June 24-26, 2022 University of Delaware

In hydrographic terms, watersheds are stretches of land that divide bodies of water from others. As the vast Chesapeake Bay watershed makes clear – draining the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia – watersheds congregate and build; obviate political boundaries; blur lines between the terrestrial and aquatic, fresh and salt; seep and produce; teem and transform. Temporality in the watershed is also messy: times sink, sediment, and circulate as the ...