The ASLE Mentoring Program connects graduate students and early career scholars with experienced members of our community for career guidance and professional support. Mentorship can take many forms, including guidance in academic scholarship or creative writing, service as outside readers on dissertation committees, help navigating the job market, advice for publishing, and support for faculty members in early career tenure-track and precarious positions.

We are currently experiencing a significant shortage of mentor volunteers. While we have received numerous requests from graduate students ...

Recorded Friday, December 5, 2025

Since ASLE hosted its 2024 Contingent and Independent Scholar Online Speaker Series, much has changed in and outside of higher education. The climate crisis has intensified, as emerging authoritarian and far-right governments dismantle democracies, roll back environmental regulations, cut funding for research, education, and culture, and expand militarization and policing.

Such sobering circumstances make it hard to remain hopeful, but the need for resistance, resilience, and regeneration have never been higher. Many scholars working across the environmental and public humanities ...

ASLE is a nonprofit professional association with a dynamic membership and one part-time professional staff member. ASLE thrives because of the commitment of its members to carrying out our work; therefore we invite our members to sustain this vital work and to shape our future by considering serving as an officer or coordinator.

This fall, ASLE will hold elections for:

If you would like to nominate yourself or another ASLE member ...

Friday November 21, 2025 1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom (pre-registration required)

Why do environmental humanities scholars, writers, and activists partner with community groups and public institutions? How do we identify possible partners to co-design projects, collaborate with, and support? And how do we initiate conversations and connections? What practical steps can help us prepare to participate in equitable, respectful partnerships? In this interactive digital workshop, we’ll explore these questions together through a series of exercises designed to help ...