We are excited to announce the lineups for our new ASLE Spotlight series launching this spring. Each of the four episodes will feature moderated conversations with ASLE members who have produced new critical and creative work in the environmental humanities. Episodes follow a theme, and highlight publicly engaged scholarship. If you cannot attend the live online events, they will be recorded for later viewing.

Friday, March 19, 2021 1-2PM, EST via Zoom

Co-Hosts: Laura Barbas-Rhoden, Heather Swan

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: ...

Deadline for Submissions: April 1, 2021

The 2021 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Digital Convening invites creative and critical engagements around the broad but timely theme of EmergencE/Y. Within a present scoured by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, by intersecting social and ecological crises, including white supremacy and settler colonialist logics and frameworks, how can environmental humanists and ecocritics imagine, conceptualize, theorize, and represent these compounding crises?

The twelve streams and featured talks and performances ...

ASLE 2021 Subvention and Translation Grants Submission Instructions

2021 ASLE Grants Call (PDF)

We are delighted to announce another round of grants is available in 2021!

ASLE is providing up to FIVE grants total this year to support EITHER subvention grants for innovative projects in ecocriticism and environmental humanities such as art installations, documentary film projects, digital humanities web projects, and book or article publication; OR translation grants funding a translation into English, or from English into other languages, of relevant ecocritical or environmental humanities work ...

This statement is in response to a new Kansas Board of Regents policy that suspends the procedures of shared governance, including tenure protection, in order to ease dismissals, suspensions, and terminations.

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The leadership of ASLE: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment condemns the recent decision of the Kansas Board of Regents to suspend tenure for two years without going through the already-established procedures that mandate a declaration of financial exigency, budget transparency, protection for faculty rights, and close coordination with faculty governance ...

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

“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 ...