ASLE News

Welcome from New ASLE Co-Presidents

McIntyre Amy

Dear ASLE Members:

We write today from Anishinaabe Akiing and Tongva territory, respectively. We are thrilled to serve the ASLE community as your new co-Presidents, bringing with us our many years of membership and service to the organization. We aim to continue the excellent work of immediate past presidents George Handley and Gisela Heffes—who planned the first-ever ASLE conference panel in Spanish, among other successful efforts—while implementing several of our own initiatives. As noted in our running statement, we feel compelled by conversations we ...

ASLE Issues Calls for Proposals for MLA 2025

McIntyre Amy

Please welcome our new MLA Liaison for ASLE, Everett Hamner. Everett is Professor of English at Western Illinois University, and is taking over for Clare Echterling, who served ASLE admirably for many years in this role–thanks Clare!

We have issued two CFPs for the 2025 MLA Convention, which will take place January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA:

Panel 1: New Cyborg Manifestos and Natureculture Stories: The Next Forty Years

Guaranteed panel (likely roundtable) sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, with a ...

2024 ASLE Subvention and Translation Grants Open for Submissions

McIntyre Amy

ASLE is pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions for ASLE Grants proposals. We are providing up to FIVE grants total in 2024 to support EITHER:

Subvention Grants funding innovative projects in ecocriticism and environmental humanities such as art installations, documentary film projects, digital humanities web projects, and book or article publication; Translation Grants funding a translation into English, or from English into other languages, of relevant ecocritical or environmental humanities work that has been previously published. Download PDF REQUIREMENTS AND INFORMATION FOR BOTH GRANTS: Materials ...

CFP for 2024 ASLE Symposium, Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction

McIntyre Amy

 

Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction ASLE 2024 Symposium University of North Florida May 16-19, 2024

Update: Deadline for proposals has been extended to February 2, 2024

Submit Now

Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals

The concept of energy has a history that long pre-dates any dreams of resource extraction or electrification. Cultures around the world have viewed different energies, plural, as living forces. Depending on the context, the word “energy” might call up images of interconnected beings, landforms, species, and worldviews. Phases of existence have even been understood in terms ...

ASLE Spotlight 2023-24 Lineup and Registration

McIntyre Amy

We are delighted to announce the themes and participants in our 2023-24 ASLE Spotlight series.

Each of our four ASLE Spotlight episodes will feature moderated conversations with ASLE members who have produced new critical and creative work in the environmental humanities. Episodes follow a theme, and highlight publicly engaged scholarship. They will be recorded for later viewing, and posted to ASLE Spotlight and to our Spotlight Channel on YouTube.

Registration is free but required for the live episodes, and space is limited. Priority will be ...

Call for Candidates: Elected and Appointed Positions

McIntyre Amy

Updated November 9, 2023: Due to a recent change in bylaws to align the Conference Chair position with our biennial schedule, and a seat vacated by the winner of last year’s Public Engagement Officer election, our usual schedule of electing two EC members per year has been disrupted. Therefore, we are also adding two at-large seats to the candidate call, and extending the deadline for nominations to November 29.  The election will run online from December 1 to December 23, 2023.  Please see ...

ASLE Sustainability Town Hall on October 3

McIntyre Amy

Please join us for a virtual Sustainability Town Hall on October 3rd. ASLE commissioned a sustainability audit of the 2023 Conference held in Portland, Oregon this past July. The conference is the ASLE activity with the organization’s largest carbon footprint, which is why it was the focus of the audit.

ASLE’s Sustainability Officer Rebecca Ballard will give a presentation on the data gathered from the sustainability audit, conducted by Climate Stewards, and lead a discussion on the present and future ...

2023 Graduate Student Paper Award Winner

McIntyre Amy

We are delighted to announce the awardees for the 2023 ASLE Graduate Student Paper Awards. These students presented their work at the 2023 conference in July, either virtually or in person in Portland, Oregon.  All recipients received a $100 prize, and the winner’s paper has been published as an article in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, now available via advanced access.

 

Winner:

Minh Huynh Vu, “Corrugated Surrogacies: Cardboard Kinships and the War in Vietnam”

Minh Huynh Vu is a third-year Ph.D. student in American ...

Featured Panel: Latinx Environmental Activism

Ponce de Leon Alejandro

The panel “Latinx Environmental Activism,” held during the ASLE + AESS Conference: Reclaiming the Commons, marked the first time an ASLE panel was conducted in Spanish. As such, the panel addressed what entails to be an activist in Latin America: whether through visual arts, poetry, or academic research, militancy and activism varies in its scopes, approaches, and goals. Visual artist Saul Hernández, Poet Celerina Sánchez, and linguist Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil (via Zoom) discussed the challenges, opportunities, and threats ingrained in activism in ...

2023 ASLE Book Award Winners

McIntyre Amy

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 ASLE Book Awards. The awards, in the categories of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing, are given to recognize excellence in the field of environmental humanities. The winners will be celebrated at the Authors/Awards Reception at the 2023 Conference in Portland, OR on July 10.

Congratulations also to our short-listed authors, read more about their excellent books via this post.

Creative Book Winner:

Indigenous Pacific Islander Eco-Literatures, edited by Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Leora Kava, and Craig Santos Perez. ...

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