2023 Book Award Finalists Announced
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.
ASLE Creative ...
Call for Submissions: ASLE Spotlight 2023
ASLE Spotlight is as program that features the range of wonderful work our members continue to produce in the environmental humanities. The series will be offered both in live video format with audience, and in a recorded format for viewing and listening afterward, occurring monthly this fall. We presently anticipate three or four 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, web projects, exhibits, etc.; include both ...
Report on Fire+Water 2022 Symposium
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 ...
“Transitions”: ASLE-UKI Conference CFP
The 2023 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the Literature and Science Hub at the University of Liverpool. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – past, present, or future – from anywhere in the world.
The theme of the 2023 conference is “Transitions“. Keynote speakers include: Brycchan Carey, Nandini Das, Caroline Edwards, Graeme MacDonald, Chris Pak, and Craig Santos Perez.
Please download the ...
ISLE Special Cluster on Queer and Trans Climate Futures Seeks Submissions
Queer and Trans Climate Futures
Special Cluster for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)
Guest Edited by Austin Lillywhite and Davy Knittle
Call for Submissions:
How do conversations about climate futures change queer and trans studies—and, in turn, how do queer and trans studies reframe environmental humanities approaches to climate precarity? Given queer and trans studies’ twin emphases on reframing queer- and trans-phobic accusations of ontological “unnaturalness” on the one hand, and negotiating the politics of how racialized expectations of gender and sexuality shape reproductive versus ...
Planet Now! / Planeta herido: Conversation Series Features Artist Verónica Gerber Bicecci in Conversation with Gisela Heffes
The Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University, Houston-based Literal Publishing, and Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) continue to produce their conversation series: Planet Now! / Planeta herido: una conversación. The series features interviews to Latin American writers, artists and activists, in Spanish, which are then transcribed, translated, and presented with English subtitles added. The goal of this series is to give visibility in the US to the Latin American environmental production, which would otherwise be unnoticed within an ...
2023 Environmental Literature Institute (ELI)
ELI participants at the Robinwood Center
From Sunday, June 25 to Friday, June 30, 2023, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire will host the sixth annual Exeter Environmental Literature Institute (ELI). The five day program, offered in collaboration with ASLE, is designed to build and sustain a community of teachers interested in environmentally focused teaching and learning. ELI is open to middle, secondary and post-secondary educators from all disciplines as well as independent scholars and those working in outdoor education, community-based education, or informal education programs.
ELI ...
Message of Solidarity: Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
ASLE stands in solidarity with all the people of Turkey and Syria affected by the recent earthquakes, and with the many valued colleagues in our organization who have also been directly and indirectly affected. Those who have survived the devastating earthquake are now facing additional difficulties and challenges, such as the severe winter, as well as inconsolable grief. We encourage the ASLE community to support their recovery by donating to an organization of your choice.
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Call for Submissions: 2023 ASLE Book Awards
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) will hold its eighth biennial book awards at its next biennial conference, to be held July 9-12, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. Both awards include a prize of $500. The awards will be presented at the Authors’ Reception during the conference (exact date TBA).
The Book Awards will be ...
ASLE Welcomes New Officers in 2023
ASLE is delighted to announce the results of our recent elections. Here are the new members of our leadership team:
Vice President: Cristin Ellis, University of Mississippi Public Engagement Officer: Daniel Lanza Rivers, San José State University Contingent/Independent Advocacy Officer: Katherine M. Huber, Ph.D., M.Ed. Diversity Officer: Fernando Varela, Texas Lutheran University Graduate Student Liaison (GSL): Lucien Darjeun Meadows, University of DenverASLE also thank the many excellent candidates who ran for office and enjoyed robust support from the membership: Kathryn Dolan, Stephen Siperstein, Xinmin Liu, Frida Heitland, and ...