Amy McIntyre has been Managing Director of ASLE since 2004. She previously worked with the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture, the New England Center for Civic Life (both at Franklin Pierce University), and the Children’s Museum of Portsmouth (now Children’s Museum of NH).
Elected Officers
Laura Barbas-Rhoden
Co-President
Laura Barbas-Rhoden is Professor of Spanish at Wofford College.
Bethany Wiggin
Co-President
Bethany Wiggin is the Founding Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities and Associate Professor of German Languages and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
Andrea Knutson
Vice President
Andrea Knutson is Associate Professor of English at Oakland University.
Jennifer Ladino
Immediate Past Vice President
Jennifer Ladino is Associate Professor of English and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Idaho.
Rina Garcia Chua
Diversity Co-Officer
Rina Garcia Chua is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
Heidi Hong
Diversity Co-Officer
Heidi Hong is a PhD candidate in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
Jenna Gersie
Graduate Student Liaison (Senior)
Jenna Gersie is is a PhD student in English at University of Colorado Boulder, Managing Editor at The Hopper magazine, and a copyeditor for The Goose.
Lisa Fink
Graduate Student Liaison (junior)
Lisa Fink has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia, and is currently completing a PhD in Environmental Studies and English at the University of Oregon.
Executive Council
April Anson
Term: 2019-2021
April Anson is the 2019 – 2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.
Bridgitte Barclay
Term: 2020-2022
Bridgitte Barclay is Associate Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at Aurora University.
Kiu-wai Chu
Term: 2021-2023
Kiu-wai Chu is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities and Chinese Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Cajetan Iheka
Term: 2019-2021
Cajetan Iheka is Assistant Professor of English at Yale University, and associate editor for African Studies Review.
Serenella Iovino
Term: 2021-2023
Serenella Iovino is Professor of Italian Studies and Environmental Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Heidi Scott is currently Assistant Clinical Professor in University Honors at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Appointed Officers and Liaisons
Karla Armbruster
Executive Secretary
Karla Armbruster is associate professor and chair of the English Department at Webster University in St. Louis, MO. Karla has previously served as ASLE President and Executive Council member.
Mary Tischler
Treasurer
Mary Tischler is the CFO for Ginosko Development Corporation in Novi, Michigan.
Christy Tidwell
Digital Strategies Coordinator
Christy Tidwell is an Associate Professor of English and Humanities at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
Heather Sullivan
Professional Liaison Coordinator
Heather I. Sullivan is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University.
Christina Gerhardt
ISLE Co-Editor
Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor of German at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
Jennifer Westerman
ISLE Co-Editor
Jennifer Westerman is Associate Professor of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University.
Lisa Ottum
ISLE Book Review Editor
Lisa Ottum is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ted Geier
ISLE Managing Editor
Ted Geier teaches at Chico State University and UC Davis.
KT Thompson
ISLE Assistant Editor, Creative Nonfiction
KT Thompson is Associate Professor of creative nonfiction and critical theory at Northern Arizona University.
Charles Waugh
ISLE Assistant Editor, Fiction
Charles Waugh is Professor of English at Utah State University.
Cecily Parks
ISLE Assistant Editor, Poetry
Cecily Parks is Assistant Professor in the MFA Program at Texas State University.
Chia-ju Chang
International Co-Liaison
Chia-ju Chang Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Brooklyn College.
Andrea Casals
International Co-Liaison
Andrea Casals teaches literature at Universidad Catolica de Chile
Lauren LaFauci
International Co-Liaison
Lauren LaFauci is an Assistant Professor at Linköping University
Elizabeth Dodd
Mentoring Program Co-Coordinator
Elizabeth Dodd is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University.
Erin James
Mentoring Program Co-Coordinator
Erin James is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Idaho
Laura-Gray Street
Environmental Creative Writing Book Award Coordinator
Laura-Gray Street is an associate professor of English and director of the Creative Writing and Visiting Writers Series Program at Randolph College.
TBA
Ecocriticism Book Award Coordinator
This position is currently in the process of being filled.