Panel at ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

This panel invites papers that examine the “collective and unequally distributed” impacts of climate change through a lens of contamination. We consider contamination in its pollutive, infectious, and radioactive sense. How do literary and/or media texts from or about the Global South respond to worsening air quality due to pollution and toxic waste disposal, radioactive contamination from nuclear testing, or the spread of infectious disease owing to the disproportionate distribution of natural …