Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”

July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon

As declines in species populations, distributions, and diversity are felt globally, a growing body of work in the environmental humanities has taken up the topic of extinction. Fields like ecocriticism and extinction studies have considered the cultures that emerge at “the dull edge of extinction” (van Dooren Flight Ways, 2014; Rose et al. Extinction Studies, 2017). Across this body of work, scholars have paid particular attention to …