Finding the “Symphony Inside You”: Nadia Colburn’s I Say The Sky Poetry Collection
In this episode, we met with Nadia Colburn to discuss her new poetry collection I Say the Sky. Deeply engaged with the ecological collapse happening around us while also reinvesting in our own existence, her poems range from the simplicity in appreciating the beauty of an onion to reassessing childhood trauma. We also talk through her multi-hyphenate pursuits and the continual search for the “symphony inside you”.
Episode recorded July 22, 2024. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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eTropics Special Issue: Tropical Futurisms
This special issue invites scholarly and artistic reflections on speculations about the im/possible and un/desirable future(s) of the tropics. We encourage inquiries on future tropical scenarios, social or ecological, utopian or dystopian, embodied or mediated, among local or global diasporic communities.
Tropical Futurisms situate the reading of futures in the shared yet multiple modalities of this geographical zone, acknowledging the social and political complexities, technological engagements, multispecies vitalities, and cosmological plurality within these regions. A glimpse into one of the many possible imaginaries of ...
ASLE 2025 Panel: Atmospheric Disturbances
This CFP is for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, which will take place July 8-11 in College Park, MD. In accordance with the ASLE 2025 theme (“Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality”), I am soliciting proposals for scholarly presentations that consider the ways in which climate engineering, geoengineering, terraforming (and other related processes) disturb the atmosphere. The panel’s overall purpose is to explore how different representations of and engagements with atmospheric disturbances present opportunities for environmental and climate justice while serving as solutions ...
ASLE Session at NeMLA: Environmental Justice Pedagogy and (R)evolution in the Arts and Humanities
CFP: NeMLA (ASLE Session): Environmental Justice Pedagogy and (R)evolution in the Arts and Humanities Deadline: 9/30/24
56th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) March 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, PA
Environmental Justice Pedagogy and (R)evolution in the Arts and Humanities, Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
Drawing on NeMLA’s 2025 theme, this session explores pedagogical approaches that enable students to engage in activism or “(r)evolution” in environmental justice (EJ)-themed arts and humanities courses. How might (r)evolution become more than subject matter in EJ courses, ...