Remembering Barry Lopez
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.
In addition, the editors of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment have collated several articles that have appeared in the journal over the years and created a special feature on the ISLE website: https://academic.oup.com/isle/pages/barry-lopez-tribute
Barry Lopez at the 1997 ASLE Conference. Photo by Susan Hanson
Terry Tempest Williams“The Color of ...
Call for Papers – LEA 10 (2021)
Call for Papers – LEA 10 (2021)
LEA is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal that publishes original research papers in all areas of literature and linguistics, with special emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and interdisciplinary exchanges (https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-lea).
“Contact, contamination, and contagion”
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2021 Publication: December 2021
Although primarily perceived as threats, both contamination (from the Latin contaminare, to blend, mingle) and contagion (con-tangĕre, to touch together) imply some form of communication and transmission “by contact direct or mediate” (OED). Understood as procedures of exchange, they ...