We are delighted to announce the themes and participants in our 2026 ASLE Spotlight series.
Each of the three ASLE Spotlight episodes features 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.
Read about and view each episode below.
EPISODE 1: Decolonizing Environments
Recorded January 23, 2026
View EpisodeCo-hosts: Lisa Fink, Sarah Wald
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- David J. Vazquez, Decolonial Environmentalisms: Climate Justice and Speculative Futurity in Latinx Cultural Production
- Teresa Dzieglewicz, Something Small of How to See a River
- Julianne Warren, “Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey
- Allison Carruth, Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech
EPISODE 2: Embodied Approaches
Recorded February 6, 2026
View EpisodeCo-hosts: Fernando Varela, Kat Caribeaux
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- Madison Jones, North Woods Project
- Rasheena Fountain, Dropped Down Blues
- Radhika Subramaniam, Footprint
- Maya Jewell Zeller, Raised by Ferns
EPISODE 3: Multispecies Connections
Recorded March 13, 2026
View EpisodeCo-hosts: Mildred Kiconco Barya, Nate Otjen
FEATURED GUESTS/WORKS:
- John Yunker and Midge Raymond, Animal Writes: Prompts and Practices to Guide the Animal Writer’s Journey
- Boria Sax, The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was a Man: Metamorphoses, Entomological and Human
- Lesley Wheeler, Mycocosmic
- Lay Sion Ng, Hemingway, Ecology and Culture: Re-reading Hemingway in the Anthropocene
