Call for ASLE Mentors and Mentees
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 ...
2025 ASLE Book and Paper Award Submissions Call
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.
Book Awards ASLE 2025 Book Awards Call (PDF)The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment ...
2024 ASLE Grant Winners
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.
Subvention Grants Kate Huber, Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization ...
ASLE Seeks Candidates for 2024 Officer Election
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:
Vice President Executive Council: Regional Collaboratories Seat Graduate Student Liaison (junior)If you would like to nominate yourself or another ASLE member for one of these positions, please ...
ASLE Spotlight 2024-25 Lineup and Registration
We are delighted to announce the themes and participants in our 2024-25 ASLE Spotlight series.
Each of our four ASLE Spotlight episodes will feature 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 will be recorded for later viewing, and posted to ASLE Spotlight and to our Spotlight Channel on YouTube.
Registration is free but required for the live episodes. Priority will be given to ASLE members, ...
Contingent and Independent Scholar Online Speaker Series
To amplify the scholarship, teaching, and activism that contingent faculty and independent scholars bring to our community, ASLE will host a series of online events in 2024 dedicated to the important and broad range of work contingent and independent scholars do.
September 6th (1-2pm EDT) – Roundtable on public humanities by and for contingent and independent scholars. October 3rd (1-2pm EDT) – Roundtable and networking workshop for reading, writing, and research groups to support the professional development and research of contingent/independent scholars. November 1st (3-4pm EDT) ...
Call for Submissions: ASLE Spotlight 2024
ASLE Spotlight is as program that features the range of wonderful work our members continue to produce in the environmental humanities. The series will occur monthly this fall in live video format with audience, and be recorded for viewing afterward. We presently anticipate three or four Spotlight episodes.
The series will provide opportunities for ASLE members to present and discuss new work in a range of ecocritical traditions and literatures, and in the environmental humanities. A committee of current and past ASLE officers will ...
2024 ASLE Symposium, Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction
Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction ASLE 2024 Symposium University of North Florida May 16-19, 2024
Registration is Now Open, Including a Virtual Option
Register Now Keynote Speakers: Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Spectacle, and many others. Heidi C.M. Scott, University of Maryland, author of Fuel: An Ecocritical History, and Chaos and Cosmos: Literary Origins of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century Kendra Hamilton, Presbyterian College, author of the forthcoming book Romancing the Gullah, and The Goddess of Gumbo: Poems (2006) Green Fire Program Update 4.8.24 (PDF)
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Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals ...
Welcome from New ASLE Co-Presidents
Dear ASLE Members:
We write today from Anishinaabe Akiing and Tongva territory, respectively. We are thrilled to serve the ASLE community as your new co-Presidents, bringing with us our many years of membership and service to the organization. We aim to continue the excellent work of immediate past presidents George Handley and Gisela Heffes—who planned the first-ever ASLE conference panel in Spanish, among other successful efforts—while implementing several of our own initiatives. As noted in our running statement, we feel compelled by conversations we ...
ASLE Issues Calls for Proposals for MLA 2025
Please welcome our new MLA Liaison for ASLE, Everett Hamner. Everett is Professor of English at Western Illinois University, and is taking over for Clare Echterling, who served ASLE admirably for many years in this role–thanks Clare!
We have issued two CFPs for the 2025 MLA Convention, which will take place January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA:
Panel 1: New Cyborg Manifestos and Natureculture Stories: The Next Forty Years
Guaranteed panel (likely roundtable) sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, with a ...