“The blue planet is calling us to cherish its immortality and ASLE membership is the best platform to learn how to get involved.” – Ufuk Ozdag
“It’s no exaggeration to say that my professional life was made possible by ASLE.” – Laird Christensen
Barry Lopez passed away on Christmas Day, 2020, and will be mourned and missed by many. We have invited some members of the ASLE community who knew Lopez to share their memories of him.
Barry Lopez at the 1997 ASLE Conference. Photo by Susan Hanson
Terry Tempest Williams“The Color of the River is Light”
Barry Lopez once showed me how to drive the back roads at night with no headlights. Why? I asked. “So you can learn to see in the dark like animals ...
Amid overlapping social and ecological crises, ASLE seeks to further members’ efforts to engage meaningfully and effectively with public audiences. We’re thrilled to announce new, virtual opportunities in 2021 to learn with members deeply engaged in public work.
Space is limited; please enroll early for this opportunity to identify, develop, and enhance your skills. Workshop series goals include:
building the capacity of ASLE members for doing public engagement; elevating the work of public writing and public engagement by ASLE members; strengthening relations among a community of practitioners ...
It is with great pleasure that ASLE announces the winners of our recent elections:
Andrea Knutson, who is finishing her term on the Executive Council, will serve as Vice President in 2021 and 2022, and Immediate Past Vice President in 2023.
Kiu-wai Chu and Serenella Iovino will serve three years as At-Large Executive Council members starting in January 2021.
Lisa Fink will serve as our new Graduate Student Liaison (GSL) for two years, with voting privileges in year two.
Andrea Knutson is an Associate Professor of English ...
To foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally, ASLE is developing a new series of live and recorded events to spotlight outstanding new work in a diverse range of ecocritical traditions and literatures and in the environmental humanities. This series will be offered both in live video format with audience, and in a recorded format for viewing and listening afterward. The series will launch in early 2021 and continue monthly. We presently anticipate four Spotlights.
Each event will feature moderated conversations ...
In May 2020, ASLE started a new “Scholar of the Month” program featured our website, which was modeled after the Society of Early Americanists’ program of the same name. The purpose is to highlight our members’ innovative research, teaching, community engagement, and other activities. Read about our past nominees and the questions we ask them at the Scholar of the Month pages on the website. We also post these profiles to ASLE Facebook and Twitter.
Now that the program has successfully launched, we would ...
ASLE members have long nurtured a close-knit community that cares deeply about one another and cherish the opportunity to gather with one another in person for sharing ideas, camaraderie, and laughter. The conference, for ASLE, has provided much more than an opportunity to add a line to a CV, and been a collegial “meeting of the minds, hearts, and bodies” in places our conference site teams have labored to share generously and make stronger in our time together, and ...
ASLE’s grants help build connections between organizations, disciplines, and movements.
This program offers students and early career members research assistance, career guidance, and support.
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment is ASLE’s official journal and is free to members.
