The ASLE subvention and translation grant committee has announced the five ASLE member projects that have been awarded grants for 2022. We would like to thank the committee members who completed this challenging process of reviewing 30 abstracts: Heather Sullivan (chair), David Taylor, Hannes Bergthaler, and Lennie Amores. Please read more about their innovative projects below.

The real and imagined disappearance of coastal terrains and ecosystems in California has given rise to new anxieties and polities that approach ...

ISLE 29.2 (Summer 2022) has just been published, and is chock full of critical and creative content to add to your summer reading!  It features the work of five previous ASLE Graduate Student Papers Award winners: Emery Jenson, Tori Bush, and Esthie Hugo (2021 virtual conference), Heidi Amin-Hong (2019), and Kristin Ferebee (2017).

Also included in this quarter’s volume are ecocritical articles by Greta Gaard, Harri Salovaara, Heather Duncan, James Perrin Warren, Rita Elizabeth Risser, Dani Redd, Robert Myers, Susan Poursanati and Aria Farmani, ...

Thursday, July 28 5pm Pacific Time / 8pm Eastern Time Via Zoom

Please join us on Zoom for the second workshop in our 2022 series of professional development workshops for ASLE graduate students. In this workshop, new faculty and postdoctoral fellows will discuss their strategies and documents for applications.

Moderated by Lisa Fink, ASLE Senior Graduate Student Liaison.

Rina Garcia Chua (she/her) is an incoming Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University. ...

Editor’s Note by Christina Gerhardt

April, of course, is National Poetry Month. In celebration of it, Cecily Parks, ISLE’s Associate Editor of Poetry, edited a special cluster of poetry. Featuring work by Tamiko Beyer, Carla M. Cherry, Tyler John Dettloff, Sara Lupita Olivares, and Cintia Santana, it highlights new poetry engaging the environment. The subsequent essays, too, engage poetry and poetics. Davy Knittle considers African American US poet June Jordan’s “Skyrise for Harlem,” an essay Jordan penned that refuses 1950s and 1960s style urban renewal ...