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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.
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...
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 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/
November 17, 2025 at 6:44 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...
October 28, 2025 at 6:34 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...
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
follow @asleecocast.bsky.social for the latest episodes of ASLE's official podcast, ASLE EcoCast!
October 15, 2025 at 3:40 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...
October 7, 2025 at 7:54 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...
October 2, 2025 at 5:07 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...
September 25, 2025 at 8:42 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...
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 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...
September 11, 2025 at 6:50 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...
September 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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
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
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
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 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
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...
August 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Congratulations to Julie Carrick Dalton's novel The Last Beekeeper, an honorable mention title for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards www.asle.org/stay-informe...
July 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show was a highly praised honorable mention for the 2025 ASLE Creative Book Award:
www.asle.org/stay-informe...
July 26, 2025 at 2:18 AM
ASLE 2025 Book Awards honorable mention in the ecocritical category deserves all the kudos: Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling by Jamie L. Jones got high praise from the judges: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
July 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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...
July 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
ASLE 2025 Virtual Conference runs July 17-18, there's still time to register and get access to panels, virtual keynote ("Queering Collective Atmospheres"), and recordings of in-person keynotes (Hsuan Hsu, J.T. Roane, Kaia Sand, Craig Santos Perez)!
site.pheedloop.com/event/asle20...
July 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There's still time to register for #asle25 and join us either in College Park, MD (July 8-11) or online (July 17-18)--check out the programs and details at www.asle.org/conference/b... #envhum
July 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
June 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Our May Scholar of the Month is Gianfranco Selgas! Read more about him at www.asle.org/stay-informe... #academicsky
May 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM