The biennial ASLE book and graduate student paper awards in the areas of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing recognize excellence in the field. The first awards were given at the 2007 Biennial Conference held at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The tenth biennial awards will be presented at the Authors’ and Awards Reception at our next conference, to be held at the University of Maryland from July 8-11, 2025.

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The ASLE subvention and translation grant committee has announced the five ASLE member projects that have been awarded grants for 2024.

Subvention Grants fund innovative projects in ecocriticism and environmental humanities such as art installations, documentary film projects, digital humanities web projects, and book or article publication, and Translation Grants fund a translation into English, or from English into other languages, of relevant ecocritical or environmental humanities work that has been previously published.

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 for one of these positions, please ...