Scholar of the Month

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for March 2025 is John MacNeill Miller.

John MacNeill Miller is currently Associate Professor of English at Allegheny College, where he teaches and writes about the intersections of literature, animal studies, and the environmental humanities. His book The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science was published in 2024 by the University of Virginia Press. He has published academic articles in PMLA, Victorian Studies, and Environmental Humanities, among other venues. His public-facing essays and creative writing ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for February 2025 is Siobhan Angus.

Siobhan Angus works at the intersections of art history, media studies, and the environmental humanities. Her current research explores the visual culture of resource extraction with a focus on materiality, labor, and environmental justice. She is an assistant professor of Media Studies at Carleton University and holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Visual Culture from York University where her dissertation was awarded the Governor General’s Gold Medal. Prior to joining Carleton, ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for January 2025 is Jeremy Chow.

Jeremy Chow is an assistant professor of English at Bucknell University, which occupies the ancestral homelands of the Susquehannock peoples. Chow is the author of The Queerness of Water: Troubled Ecologies in the Eighteenth Century (2023) as well as three edited collections: Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities (2023), Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Eighteenth Century (2025) with Shelby Johnson, and The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading (2025) with Declan Kavanagh.

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ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for June 2024 is Alison Maas.

Alison Maas is a PhD. Candidate in English with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory at the University of California, Davis. Her work has appeared in The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English, Atlantic Studies, and Comparative American Studies. She is creator and producer of the podcast series “California’s Eroding Coastline” funded by the Bilinski Fellowship at Bodega Bay Marine Lab, co-editor of the Searchable Sea Literature website run by Williams Mystic, ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for May 2024 is Michelle Yates.

Michelle Yates is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Humanities at Columbia College Chicago. Situated within ecomedia studies, her research utilizes a feminist and queer ecologies approach to examine the relationship between masculinity, nostalgia, and environmentalism as represented in popular Hollywood climate fiction (cli-fi) narratives. She has written on films such as Soylent Green (1973), WALL-E (2008), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Snowpiercer (2013), and Interstellar (2014). Michelle also produces scholarship in the ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for April 2024 is Paul Merchant.

Paul Merchant is an Associate Professor in Latin American Film and Visual Culture at the University of Bristol, UK, where he also co-directs the Centre for Environmental Humanities. His research explores the intersections of environment and culture across the region, with a particular focus on Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Ocean to Come: Pacific Futures in Chile and Peru, which examines the significance of ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for March 2024 is Elizabeth Carolyn Miller.

Liz Miller is a Professor of English and Interim Chair of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literature of Britain and the British Empire, ecocriticism and environmental studies, gender studies, and media studies. She is the author of three books, the most recent of which is Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion (Princeton, 2021). Extraction Ecologies received ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for February 2024 is Kent Linthicum.

Kent Linthicum is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at Northern Arizona University. He earned his Ph.D. from Arizona State University and was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology before accepting his current position. His work focuses on coal in nineteenth-century anglophone cultures, especially the relationship between industrialization and slavery. Dr. Linthicum’s work has appeared in Environmental Humanities, Studies in English Literature, and ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for January 2024 is Isabel Lane.

My name is Isabel Lane, and I’m a scholar and teacher working at the intersection of literature, technology, incarceration, and environment. I’m currently a Lecturer in the Harvard College Writing Program, where I teach topic-based writing courses and am glad to have the relative freedom to work on collaborative projects, nonacademic writing, and scholarship outside of my original field of training.

I received my Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Yale, where research ...