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ASLE Ecomedia SIG leaders Michelle Yates and Sara Crosby have organized these upcoming events as part of a Spring 2026 Ecomedia Virtual Lecture Series. Follow the link below to register for one or more. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 

Friday February 20 @1pm EST (12pm CST/10am PST)  “Cool Climate Stories at Brazil’s Fiery COP30″ with Everett Hamner, Professor of English, Western Illinois University “Documenting Settler Time: The James Bay Project in the Films of Boyce Richardson” with Jane Robbins Mize, ...

ASLE’s Regional Collaboratories (RC) chair Pamela Carralero invites you to a virtual gathering for ASLE members interested in regional connection and collaboration. Please join us on March 27 at 1pm EDT.

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ASLE’s RC group is fairly new, so we have the opportunity to co-create its programming. The meeting will be low-stakes (there’s no need to commit to anything) and open to flexible understandings of “region” (geographic, bioregional, thematic, hybrid). The goal is to:

Meet others interested in collaborative work Explore what projects, partnerships, connections, etc. ...

We are delighted to announce another round of ASLE Grants are available in 2026.

ASLE is providing up to FIVE grants, funded at a maximum of $1,000 each, to support:

Subvention grants for innovative projects in ecocriticism and environmental humanities such as art installations, documentary film projects, digital humanities web projects, and book or article publication; Translation grants funding a translation into English, or from English into other languages, of relevant ecocritical or environmental humanities work that has been previously published.

 

REQUIREMENTS AND INFORMATION FOR BOTH GRANTS: Materials ...

The ASLE Mentoring Program connects graduate students and early career scholars with experienced members of our community for career guidance and professional support. Mentorship can take many forms, including guidance in academic scholarship or creative writing, service as outside readers on dissertation committees, help navigating the job market, advice for publishing, and support for faculty members in early career tenure-track and precarious positions.

We Need Mentors!

We are currently experiencing a significant shortage of mentor volunteers. While we have received numerous requests from graduate students ...

 

Recorded Friday, December 5, 2025

Since ASLE hosted its 2024 Contingent and Independent Scholar Online Speaker Series, much has changed in and outside of higher education. The climate crisis has intensified, as emerging authoritarian and far-right governments dismantle democracies, roll back environmental regulations, cut funding for research, education, and culture, and expand militarization and policing.

Such sobering circumstances make it hard to remain hopeful, but the need for resistance, resilience, and regeneration have never been higher. Many scholars working across the environmental and public humanities ...

ASLE is a nonprofit professional association with a dynamic membership and one part-time professional staff member. ASLE thrives because of the commitment of its members to carrying out our work; therefore we invite our members to sustain this vital work and to shape our future by considering serving as an officer or coordinator.

This fall, ASLE will hold elections for:

(Co) President Three Executive Council seats: At-Large Seat Public Engagement Officer Seat Contingent/Independent Advocacy Seat Diversity Officer Graduate Student Liaison (junior)

If you would like to nominate yourself or another ASLE member ...

Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships Digital Workshop

Friday November 21, 2025 1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom (pre-registration required)

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Why do environmental humanities scholars, writers, and activists partner with community groups and public institutions? How do we identify possible partners to co-design projects, collaborate with, and support? And how do we initiate conversations and connections? What practical steps can help us prepare to participate in equitable, respectful partnerships? In this interactive digital workshop, we’ll explore these questions together through a series of exercises designed to help ...

Update: Submission Deadline Extended to October 6, 2025

In continuing to foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally, ASLE is continuing the Spotlight Series in 2026. The series will be offered both in live video format with audience, and in a recorded format for viewing and listening afterward, occurring in winter 2026. We presently anticipate two or three Spotlight episodes.

As in past years, each event will:

feature moderated conversations with authors/creators of work chosen for thematic coherence across diverse media such as books, films, ...

The winners for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards were announced and celebrated on July 9 at the Authors and Awards Reception at the Sixteenth ASLE Biennial Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park. The awards, in the categories of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing, were established in 2007 and have been given biennially to recognize excellence in the field. Congratulations to our winning authors and honorable mentions!

 

ASLE Ecocritical Book Award Winner

Christina Gerhardt, Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean University ...