Scholar of the Month

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for August 2023 is Emily Zong.

Emily Zong is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Humanities and Literary Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. Her research focuses on ethnic ecocriticism, migrant and refugee ecologies, and multispecies ethics, specifically in Asian Australian and Asian diasporic literature and culture. Her work has appeared in ISLE, Ariel, LIT, Critique, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, among other venues. She is the curator of Waterborne: A Climate ...

ASLE’s Scholar of the Month for July 2023 is Marina Bedran.

Marina Bedran is Assistant Professor of Lusophone Literatures and Cultures at Johns Hopkins University. She works on Brazilian literature and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present, emphasizing exchanges between Latin America and the Lusophone world. She is currently working on a book manuscript that discusses experimental media-based art and writing since the postwar period that, by turning to Amazonia, generated ways of thinking about the environment, development, and indigeneity that anticipate ...