“Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey
By Julianne Warren. Cambridge Elements series in Indigenous Environmental Research, 2025.
“Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey supports Gwich’in, Iñupiat, and all Alaska Natives’ collective continuance and reparative justice from the perspective of a settler in the traditional territories of lower Tanana Dene Peoples. It stands with Alaska Natives’ recovering and safe-keeping: kinships obstructed by settler-colonialism; ontologies and languages inseparable from land-relations and incommensurable with English-language perspectives; and epistemologies not beholden to any colonialist standard. These rights and responsibilities clash ...
Bloom Again
By Marybeth Holleman. University of Alaska Press, 2025.
Bloom Again is a novel that unfolds the story of two women whose seemingly fulfilling lives are shaken by environmental catastrophe, leading them to changes that reverberate into a shared, but forgotten, past.
Weaving together sophisticated literary narrative and characters, evocative travel and nature writing, and effective and reliable depictions of climate change crises in parts of the world underrepresented in mainstream literary fiction, Bloom Again is a realistic work of eco/climate fiction (cli-fi) about Elyse, an ...
Hemingway, Ecology and Culture: Re-reading Hemingway in the Anthropocene
By Lay Sion NG. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life-especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway.
Hemingway’s ecological perspective is often overlooked in his work. Hemingway, Ecology and Culture expands on emerging scholarship, exploring Hemingway’s non-anthropocentric view of non-human entities to offer fresh insights into the author and his nonhuman characters in his long-length fiction ...
Materiality of Air
Tatiana Konrad, editor. University of Exeter Press, 2025.
Exploring air, airborne phenomena, and elemental representation, Materiality of Air dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Understanding air’s materiality is essential to outlining clear solutions to the current challenges and to generating new meanings of what constitutes an environmentally safe and healthy future. The dual nature of air makes it a rich field for metaphor and a potent subject to think with: ...
Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19
Tatiana Konrad editor. Michigan State University Press, 2025.
Informed by transdisciplinary research in social and environmental justice, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19 is a contribution to the scholarly discourse as well as a form of activism for environmental, climate, and health justice. Using race and Indigeneity as an analytical lens, the book explores how justice in the era of climate change and COVID-19 is envisioned, depicted, and achieved. With a focus largely on humans and environments, its ...
Petroforms: Oil and the Shaping of Nigerian Aesthetics
By Helen Kapstein. West Virginia UP, 2025
Petroforms are the new aesthetic objects that emerge from art’s encounter with petroleum, read here specifically through the Nigerian experience of oil extraction, production, and attendant devastations. By grounding its argument in site-specific examples, Petroforms is able to make historically and culturally precise claims while at the same time advancing petrocriticism as a field. Its author, Helen Kapstein, brings her background in postcolonial literary and cultural studies to bear on a range of texts, from film to ...
ASLE Mentoring Program Seeks Mentors
The ASLE Mentoring Program connects graduate students and early career scholars with experienced members of our community for career guidance and professional support. Mentorship can take many forms, including guidance in academic scholarship or creative writing, service as outside readers on dissertation committees, help navigating the job market, advice for publishing, and support for faculty members in early career tenure-track and precarious positions.
We Need Mentors!We are currently experiencing a significant shortage of mentor volunteers. While we have received numerous requests from graduate students ...
Focusing on the “Wolf” in Werewolf: EcoGothic with Kaja Franck
Kaja sat down with Lindsay and I this month to discuss how scholars typically focus on the “were” in the term werewolf, but she wants us to bring more focus to the “wolf” aspect. Why are we fascinated by the prospect of becoming a wolf, and why do coyotes captivate us when they come into cities? In her new book, The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature: Wolves, Woods and Wilderness, she tells us what werewolves tell us about ourselves and about wolves themselves. Recorded ...