ASLE News

Please welcome our new MLA Liaison for ASLE, Everett Hamner. Everett is Professor of English at Western Illinois University, and is taking over for Clare Echterling, who served ASLE admirably for many years in this role–thanks Clare!

We have issued two CFPs for the 2025 MLA Convention, which will take place January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA:

Panel 1: New Cyborg Manifestos and Natureculture Stories: The Next Forty Years

Guaranteed panel (likely roundtable) sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, with a ...

ASLE is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for ASLE Grants proposals. We are providing up to FIVE grants total in 2024 to support EITHER:

Updated November 9, 2023: Due to a recent change in bylaws to align the Conference Chair position with our biennial schedule, and a seat vacated by the winner of last year’s Public Engagement Officer election, our usual schedule of electing two EC members per year has been disrupted. Therefore, we are also adding two at-large seats to the candidate call, and extending the deadline for nominations to November 29.  The election will run online from December 1 to December 23, 2023.  Please see ...

Please join us for a virtual Sustainability Town Hall on October 3rd. ASLE commissioned a sustainability audit of the 2023 Conference held in Portland, Oregon this past July. The conference is the ASLE activity with the organization’s largest carbon footprint, which is why it was the focus of the audit.

ASLE’s Sustainability Officer Rebecca Ballard will give a presentation on the data gathered from the sustainability audit, conducted by Climate Stewards, and lead a discussion on the present and future ...

We are delighted to announce the awardees for the 2023 ASLE Graduate Student Paper Awards. These students presented their work at the 2023 conference in July, either virtually or in person in Portland, Oregon.  All recipients received a $100 prize, and the winner’s paper has been published as an article in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, now available via advanced access.

Minh Huynh Vu, “Corrugated Surrogacies: Cardboard Kinships and the War in Vietnam”

Minh Huynh Vu is a third-year Ph.D. student in American ...

The panel “Latinx Environmental Activism,” held during the ASLE + AESS Conference: Reclaiming the Commons, marked the first time an ASLE panel was conducted in Spanish. As such, the panel addressed what entails to be an activist in Latin America: whether through visual arts, poetry, or academic research, militancy and activism varies in its scopes, approaches, and goals. Visual artist Saul Hernández, Poet Celerina Sánchez, and linguist Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (via Zoom) discussed the challenges, opportunities, and threats ingrained in activism in ...

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 ASLE Book Awards. The awards, in the categories of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing, are given to recognize excellence in the field of environmental humanities. The winners will be celebrated at the Authors/Awards Reception at the 2023 Conference in Portland, OR on July 10.

Congratulations also to our short-listed authors, read more about their excellent books via this post.

Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures, edited by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, and Craig Santos Perez. ...

Judges have announced the finalists for the 2023 ASLE Book Awards. 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.

Winners will be announced this June and celebrated at the Authors’ Reception at the 2023 Conference in Portland Oregon on July 10. These finalists are books authored or edited by ASLE and international affiliate members. Congratulations to our short-listed authors, read more about their books below.

Last May 13, 2022, Astrida Neimanis and the FEELed Lab of the University of British Columbia Okanagan worked with Rina Garcia Chua (ASLE’s Immediate Past Diversity Co-Officer) to come together for a one-day symposium of performative workshops, embodied storytelling, and moving performances to initiate a space for creative and critical engagements with the Okanagan’s environments in the Woodhaven Eco-Culture Centre.

Fire+Water was a day meant for self-reflection, community-strengthening, and reworlding that centred Indigenous, Black, and person of colour voices in responding to the socio-cultural ...