In Memoriam: Byron Santangelo
Byron James Morrison Santangelo died earlier this spring, in Bloomington, Indiana at age 62. He was a beloved father, husband, friend, and teacher, whose original and insightful scholarship profoundly shaped post-colonial ecocriticism, African Studies, and the environmental humanities, and whose personal kindness, wit, charm, and unflinching loyalty made him the very best friend and colleague one could ever wish to have.
Born in 1961 in Queens, New York, Byron spent his early childhood in Binghamton, NY and Washington, DC. His family moved to La ...
ASLE Seeks Digital Strategies Coordinator
ASLE is seeking a Digital Strategies Coordinator (DSC). The coordinator’s responsibilities are listed below.
If you are interested in serving in this role, applications for DSC are due by September 30, 2024, and should include a letter of interest and a CV or resume. Please send all application materials, via email as PDF or Word attachments, to info@asle.org.
Digital Strategies Coordinator (Term: 2024-2026)The Digital Strategies Coordinator (DSC) is an appointed position; the DSC is requested to make a commitment of three years, with renewal of appointment ...
Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture Journal
Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal of the environmental humanities that brings humanists, activists, artists, and scientists into conversation around environmental matters. Published three times a year by the Open Library of Humanities, Regeneration prioritizes collaborative work that places different fields, disciplines, ways of knowing, and research archives in dialogue, and invites work that challenges the conventional essay form in the humanities. We welcome a wide range of submissions, particularly those that take full advantage of a multi-modal format, that ...
John Parham
We share, via our colleagues at ASLE-UKI, the very sad news that John Parham, one of the UK’s leading ecocritics, editor of Green Letters for many years, has died: https://asle.org.uk/john-parham/
Many member of ASLE knew and loved John and his work. For those who were not as familiar, here is a link to a featured article about his Green Media pedagogy on our website: https://www.asle.org/features/green-media/Lynne Heasley’s The Accidental Reef Named a Grand Prize Winner in 2023 Indie Book Awards
The Accidental Reef and Other Ecological Odysseys in the Great Lakes, by Lynne Heasley (with illustrations and cover art by Glenn Wolff), received one of three Grand Prizes for Nonfiction in the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and first place in the categories of education/academic and animals/pets. The book was also a 2022 Nautilus Silver Award winner for Lyric Prose. Awards judge Martha Kennedy commended Heasley for environmental storytelling that “is at once scientific and lyrical, humorous and deathly serious.”
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 ...
Taylor Brorby Publishes NYT Op-Ed
Taylor Brorby, ASLE member and author of the acclaimed Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, published a NYT guest op-ed on February 24, 2023, entitled “The Real Reason North Dakota Is Going After Books and Librarians.”
The guest essay focuses on “two pieces of legislation that may soon be signed into law in North Dakota would make it possible to restrict libraries and, in some cases, to imprison librarians.”
Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Free Access Review Dossier
Please find below links to a *free access* review dossier on Environmental research and practice in Latin America, just out with the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, guest edited by Lisa Blackmore and Gisela Heffes.
It features essays on Indigenous arts in Brazil and site-specific arts practice that might be of particular relevance to members of ASLE, as well as other essays on plant and environmental thinking.
Treading Lightly on the Earth: New Directions in Latin American Environmental Research and Practice. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 31.1 ...
Allison Cobb’s Plastic: an Autobiography wins 2022 Oregon Sarah Winnemucca Book Award for Creative Nonfiction
Literary Arts’ Oregon Book Awards for 2022 have awarded the Sarah Winnemucca Book Award for Creative Nonfiction to Allison Cobb’s Plastic: An Autobiography with the following citation from John Freeman:
Plastic degrades so slowly, Allison Cobb writes in her exquisitely made hybrid memoir, it is beyond material, it becomes instantly metaphorical. What does it mean to triumph over death in this way while also delivering it, her book asks. Visiting with albatrosses in Hawaii that choke to death on plastic toothbrushes, recalling her upbringing ...
LA River Storytelling Project Awarded California Humanities Grant
Char Miller, director of environmental analysis and the W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, is the principal investigator of a two-year project entitled “The People’s Archive: Los Angeles River Narratives, Counternarratives and Conversations.” This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was awarded a $19,998 grant in December 2021.
Char Miller
“This is an extraordinary opportunity to capture the biotic and human stories about the region’s iconic river ...