In October of 1992, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment was founded by an intrepid and engaged group of scholars and writers at the WLA Conference in Reno, Nevada. We proudly celebrated our 25th Birthday in 2017, and are honored that Poets & Writers Magazine has featured ASLE to commemorate this milestone.
“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
Note from the organizers:
The name of the conference was not drawn from any specific event, but from the long literary imagining of California as another world, as we hope the call for panels and papers have made clear. ASLE mourns for the loss of life, home and habitat in all the recent fires in the state.
We also want to share links that list various organizations that are providing assistance to to the people and communities in the path of the fire, if you ...
By Christy Tidwell, Bridgitte Barclay, and Shannon Davies Mancus
This past summer, from June 14-30, the ecomedia working group hosted a digital conference sponsored by ASLE. A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene endeavored to be nearly carbon neutral and achieved this goal by hosting the symposium online in partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara. A white paper put together by Ken Hiltner of UC Santa Barbara about the ...
Submissions for 2019 ASLE book awards in the areas of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing are now being accepted. The call for graduate student paper submissions to be presented at the conference will follow this winter.
First given at 2007 Biennial Conference held at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, the ASLE book and paper awards recognize excellence in the field. The most recent awards were presented at the 2017 conference held at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, to Lauren Savoy, Jesse Oak ...
By Stephen Siperstein, Choate Rosemary Hall Academy; Jason BreMiller, Phillips Exeter Academy; and Mark C. Long, Keene State College
From June 24-29 at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, the Environmental Literature Institute (ELI) held its third annual week-long professional development institute for secondary and higher education teachers. ELI provides a space for participants from around the country and from a range of contexts and backgrounds to join a growing Environmental Humanities education community and develop their own courses, curricula, and programs.
ELI 2018: ...
ASLE’s grants help build connections between organizations, disciplines, and movements.
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ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment is ASLE’s official journal and is free to members.
