Cultures of Agriculture: ASLE-Sponsored Panel at ALA
This is a call for papers for the ASLE Panel at the American Literature Association Conference: May 25-28, 2023, The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA (in person).
Papers on any of the following topics in any period of American literature (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction) are especially welcome:
Literature of/and “accidental” farming Literature of/and urban agriculture or community supported agriculture Eco-georgics Agriculture and the wild Literature of/and food (in)security or deserts Lineages of literary farming Agricultural intimacy or indeterminacy Farming and fungal networks Agriculture amid clouds of precarity (drought, flood, fire, climate change, pollution ...