Queer and Trans Climate Futures

Special Cluster for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)

Guest Edited by Austin Lillywhite and Davy Knittle 

Call for Submissions:

How do conversations about climate futures change queer and trans studies—and, in turn, how do queer and trans studies reframe environmental humanities approaches to climate precarity? Given queer and trans studies’ twin emphases on reframing queer- and trans-phobic accusations of ontological “unnaturalness” on the one hand, and negotiating the politics of how racialized expectations of gender and sexuality shape reproductive versus ...

ELI participants at the Robinwood Center

From Sunday, June 25 to Friday, June 30, 2023, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire will host the sixth annual Exeter Environmental Literature Institute (ELI). The five day program, offered in collaboration with ASLE, is designed to build and sustain a community of teachers interested in environmentally focused teaching and learning. ELI is open to middle, secondary and post-secondary educators from all disciplines as well as independent scholars and those working in outdoor education, community-based education, or informal education programs.

ELI ...

Update: Deadline for submissions extended to January 23, 2023 2023 ASLE Book Awards Call (PDF)  (Note: deadlines are not updated in the document)

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) will hold its eighth biennial book awards at its next biennial conference, to be held July 9-12, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. Both awards include a prize of $500. The awards will be presented at the Authors’ Reception during the conference (exact date TBA).

The Book Awards will be ...

ASLE is delighted to announce the results of our recent elections. Here are the new members of our leadership team:

Vice President: Cristin Ellis, University of Mississippi Public Engagement Officer: Daniel Lanza Rivers, San José State University Contingent/Independent Advocacy Officer: Katherine M. Huber, Ph.D., M.Ed. Diversity Officer: Fernando Varela, Texas Lutheran University Graduate Student Liaison (GSL): Lucien Darjeun Meadows, University of Denver

ASLE also thank the many excellent candidates who ran for office and enjoyed robust support from the membership: Kathryn Dolan, Stephen Siperstein, Xinmin Liu, Frida Heitland, and ...