Scholar of the Month

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for October 2023 is Serena Ferrando.

Serena Ferrando is Assistant Professor of Environmental Humanities and Italian at Arizona State University. Her current book project, tentatively titled Channeling Nature: Water, Plants and Animals in Italian Poetry, is an eco-digital study of water and the nonhuman in contemporary Italian poetry. The book is a case study for the need to harness the enduring might of poetry to generate, sustain, and promote collective narratives for the protection of nonhuman environments in urban ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for September 2023 is Carolina Sánchez.

Carolina Sánchez is a Colombian writer and researcher. She is one of the editors of the Latin American Platform of Environmental Humanities. She is also a Fulbright scholar and PhD candidate in Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at Rutgers University. She works on political transitions in Contemporary Latin America, representations of spaces and belonging in visual narratives, poetics, and politics of space. She uses conceptual tools from Ecocriticism, Continental Philosophy, and Literature. ...