Deadline: November 8, 2026
Contact: William Major, Professor of English, University of Hartford
Email: major@hartford.edu

Panel Proposal for ASLE 2027 Conference

This roundtable seeks 5-7 participants interested in discussing the legacy of Wendell Berry, who died in August 2026. Papers that consider any aspect of Berry’s extensive body of work, including his fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism, are welcome. What does Berry’s work offer to environmental literary studies and the environmental humanities today? How might we understand, extend, or challenge his ideas in light of contemporary ecological, political, and cultural concerns?

In keeping with the ASLE conference theme—Territory, Terroir, Terror—papers that engage with questions of place, land, belonging, agriculture, community, displacement, or ecological crisis are encouraged.

Participants at all career stages and from a range of institutional affiliations will be considered. We are particularly interested in fostering a conversation about Berry’s continuing influence and the possibilities and limitations of his legacy for environmental thought and literary studies.

Posted on September 9, 2026