Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction ASLE 2024 Symposium University of North Florida May 16-19, 2024

Registration is Now Open, Including a Virtual Option

Register Now Keynote Speakers: Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Spectacle, and many others. Heidi C.M. Scott, University of Maryland, author of Fuel: An Ecocritical History, and Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Origins of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century Kendra Hamilton, Presbyterian College, author of the forthcoming book Romancing the Gullah, and The Goddess of Gumbo: Poems (2006) Green Fire Program Update 4.8.24 (PDF)

 

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Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals ...

Dear ASLE Members:

We write today from Anishinaabe Akiing and Tongva territory, respectively. We are thrilled to serve the ASLE community as your new co-Presidents, bringing with us our many years of membership and service to the organization. We aim to continue the excellent work of immediate past presidents George Handley and Gisela Heffes—who planned the first-ever ASLE conference panel in Spanish, among other successful efforts—while implementing several of our own initiatives. As noted in our running statement, we feel compelled by conversations we ...

Please welcome our new MLA Liaison for ASLE, Everett Hamner. Everett is Professor of English at Western Illinois University, and is taking over for Clare Echterling, who served ASLE admirably for many years in this role–thanks Clare!

We have issued two CFPs for the 2025 MLA Convention, which will take place January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA:

Panel 1: New Cyborg Manifestos and Natureculture Stories: The Next Forty Years

Guaranteed panel (likely roundtable) sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, with a ...

ASLE is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for ASLE Grants proposals. We are providing up to FIVE grants total in 2024 to support EITHER:

Subvention Grants funding innovative projects in ecocriticism and environmental humanities such as art installations, documentary film projects, digital humanities web projects, and book or article publication; Translation Grants funding a translation into English, or from English into other languages, of relevant ecocritical or environmental humanities work that has been previously published. Download PDF REQUIREMENTS AND INFORMATION FOR BOTH GRANTS: Materials ...