Panel Call for ASLE 2027, 22–24 June 2027 at the University of Maryland, College Park

Contact: Thomas Bryant, Penn State (Thomasabryant4@gmail.com)

Insects often figure the bounds of meaningful life. Technologies of control such as pesticides and xenophobic rhetoric are shaped around the extermination and exclusion of insects. Simultaneously, authors have rendered insects as highly sympathetic or as models for collective life (whether they are deployed as forms of matriarchy, mutual aid, pests, contagion, or war). Scholarship has effectively bridged literary studies and Critical Animal Studies …