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Editors: Allison Dushane, Lisa Ottum, Rosalind Powell. Modern Language Association, 2026.

Science writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science—not as separate endeavors but as mutually constitutive practices. Engaging with long-standing scholarly conversations in science and technology studies, literature and science, rhetoric, and science communication, the essays in Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom showcase the value of science writing as a mode of cultural analysis, as an object of close reading, and as a foundation for ...

By Marisol Cortez. Finishing Line Press, 2025.

Written in the years after returning home to South Texas, The Bird Church tends to the urban microfauna—the grackles, koi, chicharras, cosmos, feral parrots, snoutnosed butterflies, but also the ornamental fruit and children—which persist in the unsupervised scars of highways and inland refineries. Less a poetry of witness than of attention, The Bird Church considers “what is here”: the ordinary life that persists and survives amid the occupations of colonial history and its current climate and political ...

By Miranda Schmidt. Stillhouse Press, 2025.

Miranda Schmidt’s lyrical debut novel blurs the boundaries between poetry and prose, human and nonhuman, reality and magic. A tale of queer love, new motherhood, and ecological interconnectedness, Leafskin interrogates how we create, and what we become, in a time of environmental devastation.

A poet and her husband have been trying to make a baby. But while undergoing fertility treatments in the midst of a harrowing wildfire season, Jo reconsiders raising a child in a time of climate crisis. ...

By Julianne Warren. Cambridge Elements series in Indigenous Environmental Research, 2025.

“Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey supports Gwich’in, Iñupiat, and all Alaska Natives’ collective continuance and reparative justice from the perspective of a settler in the traditional territories of lower Tanana Dene Peoples. It stands with Alaska Natives’ recovering and safe-keeping: kinships obstructed by settler-colonialism; ontologies and languages inseparable from land-relations and incommensurable with English-language perspectives; and epistemologies not beholden to any colonialist standard. These rights and responsibilities clash ...

By Marybeth Holleman. University of Alaska Press, 2025.

Bloom Again is a novel that unfolds the story of two women whose seemingly fulfilling lives are shaken by environmental catastrophe, leading them to changes that reverberate into a shared, but forgotten, past.

Weaving together sophisticated literary narrative and characters, evocative travel and nature writing, and effective and reliable depictions of climate change crises in parts of the world underrepresented in mainstream literary fiction, Bloom Again is a realistic work of eco/climate fiction (cli-fi) about Elyse, an ...

By Lay Sion NG. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life-especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway.

Hemingway’s ecological perspective is often overlooked in his work. Hemingway, Ecology and Culture expands on emerging scholarship, exploring Hemingway’s non-anthropocentric view of non-human entities to offer fresh insights into the author and his nonhuman characters in his long-length fiction ...

Tatiana Konrad, editor. University of Exeter Press, 2025.

Exploring air, airborne phenomena, and elemental representation, Materiality of Air dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Understanding air’s materiality is essential to outlining clear solutions to the current challenges and to generating new meanings of what constitutes an environmentally safe and healthy future. The dual nature of air makes it a rich field for metaphor and a potent subject to think with: ...

Tatiana Konrad editor. Michigan State University Press, 2025.

Informed by transdisciplinary research in social and environmental justice, Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of Climate Change and COVID-19 is a contribution to the scholarly discourse as well as a form of activism for environmental, climate, and health justice. Using race and Indigeneity as an analytical lens, the book explores how justice in the era of climate change and COVID-19 is envisioned, depicted, and achieved. With a focus largely on humans and environments, its ...

By Helen Kapstein. West Virginia UP, 2025

Petroforms are the new aesthetic objects that emerge from art’s encounter with petroleum, read here specifically through the Nigerian experience of oil extraction, production, and attendant devastations. By grounding its argument in site-specific examples, Petroforms is able to make historically and culturally precise claims while at the same time advancing petrocriticism as a field. Its author, Helen Kapstein, brings her background in postcolonial literary and cultural studies to bear on a range of texts, from film to ...