Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
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ASLE is a dynamic environmental humanities community for those interested in the natural world, especially its meanings and representations in literature, art, language, and culture.
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Congratulations to our 2025 ASLE Book Award Winners: #ecocritical winner is Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt) and creative winner is After World (Debbie Urbanski). www.asle.org/stay-informe...
There's still time to sign up for the ASLE #envhum Digital Workshop happening this Friday!
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Nov. 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
Details/registration link: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Nov. 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
Details/registration link: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
There's still time to sign up for the ASLE #envhum Digital Workshop happening this Friday!
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Nov. 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
Details/registration link: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Nov. 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
Details/registration link: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
ASLE #envhum Digital Workshop happening this Friday!
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Nov. 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
Guests: Pamela Carralero and Mona Munroe-Younis
Details/registration link:https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-news/developing-partnerships-workshop/
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Nov. 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
Guests: Pamela Carralero and Mona Munroe-Younis
Details/registration link:https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-news/developing-partnerships-workshop/
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
ASLE #envhum Digital Workshop happening this Friday!
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Nov. 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
Guests: Pamela Carralero and Mona Munroe-Younis
Details/registration link:https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-news/developing-partnerships-workshop/
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Nov. 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom
Guests: Pamela Carralero and Mona Munroe-Younis
Details/registration link:https://www.asle.org/stay-informed/asle-news/developing-partnerships-workshop/
Oxford Intersections, a constellation of thematic clusters exploring the knowledge that shapes our contemporary world. Here's the #culturesofwaste CFP if you’d like to contribute or help spread the word academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
Current Calls for Papers
Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world
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November 3, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Oxford Intersections, a constellation of thematic clusters exploring the knowledge that shapes our contemporary world. Here's the #culturesofwaste CFP if you’d like to contribute or help spread the word academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
Online Roundtable: Strategies for Solidarity on Dec. 5, 2-3pm EST. Join us to take stock of the current landscape for independent/contingent scholars, and to consider how to build solidarity networks. #academicsky Read more and register: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Online Roundtable: Strategies for Solidarity on Dec. 5, 2-3pm EST. Join us to take stock of the current landscape for independent/contingent scholars, and to consider how to build solidarity networks. #academicsky Read more and register: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Listen in on a fascinating conversation with Bart Welling on ASLE EcoCast, focusing on his new book project “Resisting Energy: The Long Struggle Against Irresponsible Power" #energyhumanities www.asle.org/stay-informe...
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Listen in on a fascinating conversation with Bart Welling on ASLE EcoCast, focusing on his new book project “Resisting Energy: The Long Struggle Against Irresponsible Power" #energyhumanities www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available!
📆28/10 15:00
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📆28/10 15:00
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For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Sign-up for the Northern Environmental History Network's first talk of 2025/26 is now available!
📆28/10 15:00
@eseh.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social
📆28/10 15:00
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A new episode is live with Bart Welling where we discuss his book project rethinking energy, informed by a US road trip he took! Listen below.
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#EnvironmentalHumanities
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#EnvironmentalHumanities
ASLE EcoCast Podcast | asleecocast
EcoCast: Environmental Conversations On Creative Art, Scholarship, and Teaching. The official podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Each episode features inter...
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October 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A new episode is live with Bart Welling where we discuss his book project rethinking energy, informed by a US road trip he took! Listen below.
asleecocast.podbean.com
#EnvironmentalHumanities
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#EnvironmentalHumanities
follow @asleecocast.bsky.social for the latest episodes of ASLE's official podcast, ASLE EcoCast!
October 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
follow @asleecocast.bsky.social for the latest episodes of ASLE's official podcast, ASLE EcoCast!
Want to get more involved with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment? Consider an elected or appointed office! We are seeking candidates for our fall elections now: www.asle.org/stay.../asle...
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Want to get more involved with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment? Consider an elected or appointed office! We are seeking candidates for our fall elections now: www.asle.org/stay.../asle...
Just a few hours left to submit to ASLE Spotlight at forms.gle/rZ8gAs6bpUGx...
Call for Submissions to ASLE Spotlight 2026: New Work in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities
Update: Submission Deadline Extended to October 6, 2025
In continuing to foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally, ASLE is continuing the Spotlight Series in 2026. The s...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Just a few hours left to submit to ASLE Spotlight at forms.gle/rZ8gAs6bpUGx...
We've extended the deadline for submission to the 2026 ASLE Spotlight series on the #envhum to October 6! Read details and get your application in (it only take a few minutes) at www.asle.org/stay-informe...
October 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We've extended the deadline for submission to the 2026 ASLE Spotlight series on the #envhum to October 6! Read details and get your application in (it only take a few minutes) at www.asle.org/stay-informe...
New book from our Member Bookshelf:
The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations
By Mark Laird. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2024.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations
By Mark Laird. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2024.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
September 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
New book from our Member Bookshelf:
The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations
By Mark Laird. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2024.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations
By Mark Laird. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2024.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
New ASLE #envhum Digital Workshop!
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Friday November 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom (pre-registration required)
Guests: Pamela Carralero and Mona Munroe-Younis
Details/registration link: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Friday November 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom (pre-registration required)
Guests: Pamela Carralero and Mona Munroe-Younis
Details/registration link: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New ASLE #envhum Digital Workshop!
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Friday November 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom (pre-registration required)
Guests: Pamela Carralero and Mona Munroe-Younis
Details/registration link: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Public Engagement Practices: Developing Partnerships
Friday November 21, 2025
1-2:30 p.m. ET on Zoom (pre-registration required)
Guests: Pamela Carralero and Mona Munroe-Younis
Details/registration link: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'
Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics
Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies
Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics
Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies
September 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The journal is co-presenting an online event with Oak Spring Garden Foundation on 8th October – 'Plants, Memory belonging'
Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics
Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies
Join us for some wonderful research on plants by writers, artists, and academics
Register here: www.osgf.org/programs-and... #envhist #envhum #PlantStudies
Do you know an ASLE colleague who deserves recognition for their contributions to the environmental humanities and arts? We invite you to nominate them to be featured as a Scholar of the Month!
Nominations can be made using this form: forms.gle/QGF9NbcnzLpY...
Nominations can be made using this form: forms.gle/QGF9NbcnzLpY...
September 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Do you know an ASLE colleague who deserves recognition for their contributions to the environmental humanities and arts? We invite you to nominate them to be featured as a Scholar of the Month!
Nominations can be made using this form: forms.gle/QGF9NbcnzLpY...
Nominations can be made using this form: forms.gle/QGF9NbcnzLpY...
New book from our Member Bookshelf:
Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far
By Simmons Buntin. Trinity University Press, 2025.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far
By Simmons Buntin. Trinity University Press, 2025.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
September 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
New book from our Member Bookshelf:
Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far
By Simmons Buntin. Trinity University Press, 2025.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Satellite: Essays on Fatherhood and Home, Near and Far
By Simmons Buntin. Trinity University Press, 2025.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Submit your #envhum work for ASLE Spotlight 2026, deadline October 1, 2025, details here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
September 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Submit your #envhum work for ASLE Spotlight 2026, deadline October 1, 2025, details here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Deeply grateful to James Metcalf for this generous review of *Action without Hope*, which I appreciate bc it so sensitively redescribes what I was trying to do, sharpening in the act of retelling—a type of readerly attention I try to argue for too 🌿🙏
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Action without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse. By Nathan K. Hensley
Famously, poetry makes nothing happen—nor should we expect it to, according to Action without Hope: poetry is not responsible for fixing a broken world. Na
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September 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Deeply grateful to James Metcalf for this generous review of *Action without Hope*, which I appreciate bc it so sensitively redescribes what I was trying to do, sharpening in the act of retelling—a type of readerly attention I try to argue for too 🌿🙏
@asle-us.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
@asle-us.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Listen to the ASLE EcoCast episode "One Day at a Time: Kate Rigby's Meditation on Creation" on your favorite platform! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum
September 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Listen to the ASLE EcoCast episode "One Day at a Time: Kate Rigby's Meditation on Creation" on your favorite platform! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum
Catch up on this recent @asleecocast.bsky.social ASLE EcoCast episode "Environmentalisms: Latinx Catholicism and the Environment" featuring author Amanda Baugh. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum
September 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Catch up on this recent @asleecocast.bsky.social ASLE EcoCast episode "Environmentalisms: Latinx Catholicism and the Environment" featuring author Amanda Baugh. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum
The latest episode of @asleecocast.bsky.social ASLE EcoCast has dropped. "Defining Disaster, Defining Ecocinema: Taking a Closer Look at Japan with Rachel DiNitto" --listen on Podbean, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. #envhum www.asle.org/stay-informe...
September 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The latest episode of @asleecocast.bsky.social ASLE EcoCast has dropped. "Defining Disaster, Defining Ecocinema: Taking a Closer Look at Japan with Rachel DiNitto" --listen on Podbean, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. #envhum www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Can #poetry save the world from extractivist plunder and climate violence?
These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking.
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#climate #literature #ecolit #clifi #environment
These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking.
deceleration.news/can-poetry-s...
#climate #literature #ecolit #clifi #environment
August 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Can #poetry save the world from extractivist plunder and climate violence?
These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking.
deceleration.news/can-poetry-s...
#climate #literature #ecolit #clifi #environment
These scholars of multi-lingual poetry from Latin America say yes—and that the Earth has a language that is archived by poetic thinking.
deceleration.news/can-poetry-s...
#climate #literature #ecolit #clifi #environment
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My book is available to pre-order! upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/ I am so grateful to all the folks who have listened to me talk about this project over the last ten years at conferences, seminars, & beyond 🙏 @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
Irish Ecomedia
<p><b>The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future</b></p><p>Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—
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September 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
My book is available to pre-order! upress.virginia.edu/title/10163/ I am so grateful to all the folks who have listened to me talk about this project over the last ten years at conferences, seminars, & beyond 🙏 @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social @efacis.bsky.social @ndirishstudies.bsky.social
The call for submissions for ASLE Spotlight 2026 is out with deadline October 1, 2025, read it here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
September 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The call for submissions for ASLE Spotlight 2026 is out with deadline October 1, 2025, read it here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
New book from our Member Bookshelf:
Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
By Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD. Eifrig Publishing, 2024.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
By Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD. Eifrig Publishing, 2024.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
August 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
New book from our Member Bookshelf:
Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
By Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD. Eifrig Publishing, 2024.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
Zazu Dreams: Between the Scarab and the Dung Beetle, A Cautionary Fable for the Anthropocene Era
By Cara Judea Alhadeff, PhD. Eifrig Publishing, 2024.
www.asle.org/stay-informe...