ASLE Welcomes Newly Elected Officers
ASLE is grateful to have so many engaged members who volunteer their time to help run our organization. Our most recent elections took place in November, and we are delighted to announce these new officers joining our leadership team:
Gisela Heffes, Rice University, and George Handley, Brigham Young University, Co-Presidents Scott Hess, Earlham College, Executive Council Conference Chair Seat Jesse Oak Taylor, University of Washington, Executive Council Regional Collaboratories Seat Cassie Galentine, University of Oregon, Graduate Student Liaison (GSL)Our new Co-Presidents have composed a message in both ...
Call for Submissions: 2022 ASLE Book Awards
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) will bestow its eighth biennial book awards in 2022, after a postponement of the 2021 conference and awards due to the pandemic. The awards include a prize of $500. The awards will be presented virtually at a date TBA.
The Book Awards will be presented in two categories:
the best book-length work of scholarly ecocriticism published in 2019, 2020, or 2021. the best book-length work of creative writing (any genre) with an ...
Call for Pitches: Zoom In (A Teaching Series for ASLE)
Call for Pitches: Zoom In (A Teaching Series for ASLE)
ASLE is an organization full of brilliant teachers as well as scholars, and we have much we can learn from each other. ASLE members are invited to contribute to a series of teaching posts for the ASLE website in which they explore the pedagogical possibilities of a text by focusing on one detail at a time. Each post will put a handful of teachers in conversation with each other about the same text, giving ...
Call for Submissions: ASLE Spotlight 2022
In continuing to foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally after our first Spotlight Series and our first virtual biennial conference in 2021, ASLE is continuing the Spotlight Series in 2022. The series will be offered both in live video format with audience, and in a recorded format for viewing and listening afterward, will launch in Spring 2022, and continue monthly. We presently anticipate four Spotlight episodes.
As in 2021 (View the 2021 Spotlight Episodes for reference), each event will feature ...
New Collaborative Initiative: Planet Now! / Planeta herido: una conversación
The Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University, Houston-based Literal Publishing, and Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) are happy to announce a new collaboration initiative, Planet Now! / Planeta herido: una conversación. The project seeks to foster collaboration and public dialogue about environmental issues and promote equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in just environmental practices. The first offering from Planet Now! / Planeta herido: una conversación is an interview between Gisela Heffes and Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin, author of ...
Request for Proposals: ASLE 2022 Symposia
Request for Proposals: ASLE 2022 Symposia
ASLE seeks proposals to organize and host smaller symposia in 2022, which could take the form of either a virtual conference, similar to those we held in 2018 and 2020, or a small in-person regional symposium at your campus. We envision an event that will complement the in-person gathering planned for June 24-26, 2022 at the University of Delaware, which will center on the theme of “Watersheds”. We are open to any thematic ideas that will encompass current ...
2021 ASLE Graduate Student Paper Award Winners
Congratulations to the three applicants whose scholarship presented at the 2021 ASLE Virtual Conference, “EmergencE/Y”, were chosen for the ASLE Graduate Student Paper Award. This year’s field was especially deep, with more than 80 submissions for the judges to evaluate. Here is a bit more about the winners and their work.
Tori Bush, Louisiana State University “Eco-Orientalism: Constructing Climate Migration on Isle de Jean Charles” In 2016, $48 million federal tax dollars were allocated to move the entire indigenous community of the Isle de Jean Charles ...
Member Opportunities: Elected and Appointed Positions
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) is a nonprofit with a dynamic membership and one ongoing part-time professional staff member. ASLE thrives because of the commitment of its members to carrying out our work. ASLE invites our members to sustain vital work and to shape our future through an elected or appointed position.
The next several years involve implementing a new strategic plan, while also responding creatively and flexibly to the ongoing duress imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
2021 ASLE Grant Awardees Announced
ASLE is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 ASLE Grants. Our five awardees include three subvention awards and two translation awards. Read more about their projects and plans below.
Subvention Grants The World according to Maya BeesThe documentary film The World according to Maya Bees is based on the research led by Kata Beilin and Sainath Suryanarayanan and published in ACME in 2020 under the title Milpa Melipona Maya; Mayan Interspecies Alliances Facing Agribiotechnology in Yucatan. It tells the story of the ...
ASLE Signs Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History
ASLE is one of 133 organizations that has signed on to this Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism in American History (June 2021).
The American Association of University Professors, the American Historical Association, the Association of American Colleges & Universities, and PEN America have authored a joint statement stating their “firm opposition” to legislation, introduced in at least 20 states, that would restrict the discussion of “divisive concepts” in public education institutions. It is not possible to address divisions that exist, ...