We are delighted to announce the themes and participants in our 2024-25 ASLE Spotlight series.
Each of our four ASLE Spotlight episodes 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 are recorded for later viewing, and posted to ASLE Spotlight and to our Spotlight Channel on YouTube.
Links to each episode, and a list of the creators/authors featured, is below.
EPISODE 1: EXTRACTION
Read More and View EpisodeCo hosts: Sharae Deckard and Kate Huber
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Nathaniel Otjen, Mining for the Climate
- Petra Kuppers, Diver Beneath the Street
- Fereshteh Toosi, School of Oil and Water
- Louis Kirk McAuley, The Ecology of British and American Empire Writing, 1704-1894
EPISODE 2: LOCALIZING THE GLOBAL
Recorded Friday, November 15, 2024
Co-hosts: Laura Barbas-Rhoden and Amanda M. Smith
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Catherine Diamond, Kinnari Ecological Theatre Project
- John MacNeill Miller, The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science
- Victoria Saramago (with Jens Andermann and Gabriel Giorgi), Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics
- Malcolm Sen, A History of Irish Literature and the Environment
EPISODE 3: CLIMATE JUSTICE
Read More and View EpisodeRecorded Friday, January 17, 2025
Co-hosts: John Brannigan and Kyle Keeler
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Jane Robbins Mize and Isabel Lane, Evacuation Plan
- Parisa Rinaldi, Coastal Community Resilience
- Leanne Dunic, Wet
- Kamala Platt, Environmental Justice Poetics
EPISODE 4: REPRODUCING ANIMALITY
Read More and View EpisodeRecorded Friday, February 21, 2025
Co-hosts: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond and Kathryn Kirkpatrick
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Jennie Case, We Are Animals
- Sarah Giragosian, Mother Octopus
- Ted Toadvine, The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology
- Mandy-Suzanne Wong, The Tubercled-Blossom Pearly Mussel Memorial Library of Hope
