Scholar of the Month

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for November 2023 is Lucien Darjeun Meadows.

Lucien Darjeun Meadows was born in Virginia and raised in West Virginia. A Ph.D. graduate from the University of Denver (June 2023), his Ph.D. dissertation studies the queer ecology of clouds in nineteenth-century British poetics, so as to show how lyrical writing on clouds, within works from poems to scientific treatises, destabilizes human subject/environmental object hierarchies and instead offers subject/subject relationships.

Across his interests in environmental studies, Indigenous studies, queer theory, and working-class poetics, as ...