Deadline: March 11, 2026
Contact: Everett Hamner
Email: e-hamner@wiu.edu

ASLE is seeking submissions for two sessions at MLA 2027 (Los Angeles, California, January 7–10, 2027), one guaranteed and one co-sponsored:

ASLE Affiliate Organization Guaranteed Session

We are seeking pre-formed panel OR individual paper proposals.

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33453.html

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment has one guaranteed session at MLA27; it is already supporting a collaborative, non-guaranteed session (see above). Send CVs and 250-300-word panel OR paper proposals to aslerocksmla@gmail.com by 3/11.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Co-sponsored session with the Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Forum

“The Environmental Humanities: Then and Now”

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2027/webprogrampreliminary/Paper33451.html

Where and what have the environmental humanities been? As the field continues to grapple with mounting ecological and political crisis, what lessons can the environmental humanities learn from its past? Send 250-word abstract+bio to jonathan.d.howard@yale.edu.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

ASLE MLA Liaison: Dr. Everett Hamner, Western Illinois University

Posted on February 23, 2026