AFTER WORLD
By Debbie Urbanski. Simon & Schuster, 2023.
After World is about humanity’s relationship with the planet and who or what in that relationship is most important. It’s also about artificial intelligence, climate change, extinction, and the future. Humanity has gone extinct to save the planet, and an AI narrator is tasked to tell the story of Sen Anon, the last human on Earth. But as the AI goes about researching and recording Sen’s life, they become uncomfortable with the direction Sen’s story is taking, so ...
Welcome from New ASLE Co-Presidents
Dear ASLE Members:
We write today from Anishinaabe Akiing and Tongva territory, respectively. We are thrilled to serve the ASLE community as your new co-Presidents, bringing with us our many years of membership and service to the organization. We aim to continue the excellent work of immediate past presidents George Handley and Gisela Heffes—who planned the first-ever ASLE conference panel in Spanish, among other successful efforts—while implementing several of our own initiatives. As noted in our running statement, we feel compelled by conversations we ...
ASLE Issues Calls for Proposals for MLA 2025
Please welcome our new MLA Liaison for ASLE, Everett Hamner. Everett is Professor of English at Western Illinois University, and is taking over for Clare Echterling, who served ASLE admirably for many years in this role–thanks Clare!
We have issued two CFPs for the 2025 MLA Convention, which will take place January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA:
Panel 1: New Cyborg Manifestos and Natureculture Stories: The Next Forty Years
Guaranteed panel (likely roundtable) sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, with a ...
ASLE-UKI Biennial Postgraduate Conference
5-6 September 2024 University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Eva Haifa Giraud (University of Sheffield) Alycia Pirmohamed (University of Cambridge)
The 2024 postgraduate conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network at the University of Edinburgh. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from postgraduate and early career scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, arts, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from anywhere in ...