Guaranteed ASA-Sponsored panel at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9–12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

Ever since Lawrence Buell drew his famous distinction between “first-wave” and “second-wave” ecocriticism (2005), the standard story about the field has been one of diversification: if ecocriticism emerged in the 1990s as the study of white nature writing, it evolved in the 2000s and 2010s by engaging different genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, classes, castes, and more. A quick glance at a journal issue or a conference …