Deadline: 9/30/2026
Contact: Gayathri Goel
Email: goelg@bc.edu

Panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)

Held March 6-9, 2027, Newport RI.

This roundtable envisions writing as a collaborative act and centers writings that empower Environmental Justice communities. How have/do writing communities negotiate and enact environmental justice? How do writing communities disseminate scientific and technical information towards environmental action and justice? Participants in this roundtable are encouraged to consider:

o How does/can writing raise collective environmental consciousness?

o Writing in the Humanities to mobilize marginalized communities in the age of climate change

o Aesthetic writings beyond the pleasure of nature writing but those that fuel ethical actions

o Place-based writing that also takes into account displacement, deracination, and forced climate migration

o Writing that argues for multispecies kinship and justice

o Writing that transcends linguistic structures and includes other material realities

o Transdisciplinary rhetorical writing that transforms/translates scientific communication and empowers citizens

o Writing as a way to organize collective environmental action in the face of systemic injustice.

Format: roundtable (5-10 participants)

Please submit a 200-300-word abstract ONLY via the NeMLA portal by 9/30/2026.

Email: Dr. Gayathri Goel goelg@bc.edu

Posted on July 3, 2026