Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards. The awards, in the categories of ecocriticism and environmental creative writing, were established in 2007 and have been given biennially to recognize excellence in the field.

Winners will be announced this July and celebrated at the Authors/Awards Reception at the 2025 Conference at the University of Maryland, College Park on July 9. The finalists are books authored or edited by ASLE and international affiliate members.  Congratulations to our short-listed authors, read more about ...

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment is the quarterly journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment published by Oxford University Press.

ISLE invites applications for the positions of Associate Editor of Poetry, Associate Editor of Fiction, and Associate Editor of Creative Nonfiction.  Application deadline for all three is June 6, 2025. Please see the position descriptions below.

Duties: Work with the Editor, Managing Editor and Publisher to ...

ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the quarterly journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), published by Oxford University Press, seeks a new Managing Editor for the journal.

Primary responsibilities of this volunteer service position to ASLE and ISLE include the following 1) responding to all incoming emails, which includes responding to author and reviewer inquiries and communicating with authors and reviewers on procedural and stylistic matters; 2) overseeing the ScholarOne Manuscript Central peer review process; 3) proofreading ...

The primary purpose of the ASLE Mentoring Program is to offer graduate students and early career scholars career guidance and other forms of professional support. Some examples include 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.

If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please fill out our intake form. If you are an ASLE member and ...

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.