2026 ASLE Grants Winners
This year we were able to fund four subvention grants and one translation grant, each for $1000. Congratulations to our winners!
Subvention GrantsMarvellous Taiwo
The Virtual Ken Saro-Wiwa Project
The Virtual Ken Saro-Wiwa Project is a digital humanities project that uses digital technology to recreate the censored speech of renowned environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa at the sentencing of Saro-Wiwa and eight other indigenous activists, known as the Ogoni Nine. The project ...
ASLE 2027: Pests, Predators, and Parasites: Terror and Beyond
This is a guaranteed session supported by the ASLE “Ecogothic and Ecohorror” Interest Group.
Representations of pests, predators, and parasites are often sources of terror in the ecogothic, ecohorror, and other related speculative literature/visual media, but they can also move beyond the functional terror to negotiate multispecies relationality, transformation, symbiosis, and uneasy coexistence in today’s changing world.
This roundtable (5-7 panelists for 8-10 minutes each) invites submissions addressing the imaginaries of pests, predators, and parasites in contemporary speculative literature/visual media (broadly defined), especially those in ...
ASLE 2027: “Hybrid Ecocriticism” Seminar Session
This call invites paper proposals for a seminar session on “Hybrid Ecocriticism” at the 2027 ASLE Conference. As academic publication pathways have expanded in recent years to include more public-facing venues, so too have opportunities for scholars, students, and other writers to experiment with “hybrid” writing that blends critical scholarship with more overtly creative approaches to its subject matter. In the interest of fostering a wide-ranging conversation on content and craft, this seminar will bring together 9 to 12 participants who will share ...