Leadership & Staff

Anthony Lioi is associate professor of Liberal Arts and English at the Juilliard School in New York City, and the founding director of Juilliard’s writing center. He was an ASLE Executive Council member from 2011-2013.

Christoph Irmscher is Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Nicole Seymour is Assistant Professor of English
at California State University Fullerton.

Sarah Jaquette Ray is on the faculty in the Department of Geography and Program Leader for Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University.

Laura Barbas-Rhoden is Professor of Spanish at Wofford College.

Gisela Heffes is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at Rice University

Aubrey Streit Krug is a PhD candidate in English and Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Elizabeth Dodd is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at Kansas State University, and is Co-Coordinator of the ASLE Graduate Mentoring Program.

Greg Garrard is Associate Professor, Sustainability, at University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He was Chair of ASLE-UKI from 2004-2009.

Lilace Mellin Guignard teaches part-time at Mansfield University, and is also their part-time Director of the Institute of Science and the Environment.

Heather Houser is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas, Austin and book review editor for Contemporary Literature.

Stephen Rust is a full-time instructor at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, and moderator for the online forum Ecomediastudies.org.

Priscilla Solis Ybarra is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Texas, specializing in Chicana/o Literature and Theory and Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism.

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.

April Anson is a PhD candidate and the Jane Campbell Krohn Fellow in Literature and the Environment at University of Oregon.

Scott Slovic is Professor of Literature and Environment and Chair of the Department of English at the University of Idaho. Scott was the founding President of ASLE.

Tom J. Hillard is an Associate Professor of English at Boise State University. From 2005-2007, he served as one of ASLE’s Graduate Student Liaisons, and from 2008-2010 was a member of the Executive Council.

George Handley is Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University.

Erin James is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Idaho

Heather I. Sullivan is Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Trinity University.

Catherine Meeks, co-founder of Fall Line South Field Institute, an academic outdoor education organization for young adults in the Southeastern US, is pursuing her MFA in fiction writing at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, where she was the 2013-2014 Rona Jaffe fellow.

Sarah D. Wald is Assistant Professor of English at University of Oregon.

Christoph Irmscher is Professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Salma Monani is Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College’s Environmental Studies department.

Nicholas Bradley is assistant professor of English at the University of Victoria.