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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

Submit your #envhum work for ASLE Spotlight 2026, deadline October 1, 2025, details here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Our newest episode is out! Join us for a conversation with Rachel DiNitto about disasters and ecocinema in the Japanese context. asleecocast.podbean.com/e/defining-d...

As attacks ramp up @mkaiasand.bsky.social details the many ways we construct homeless people as “unwanted persons,” but also the creativity embodied in alternative first responder systems that enact “care work without violence.” @asle-us.bsky.social deceleration.news/asle-2025-ka...

This week we start to roll out some reportbacks from @asle-us.bsky.social ... Our first from Kamala Platt, author of 'Environmental Justice Poetics: Cultural Representations of Environmental Racism from Chicanas and Women in India.' deceleration.news/asle-collect... #environment #ecocrit #climate

dropping bunch of stories from @asle-us.bsky.social biennial gathering finally. thinking/writing at edge of #lit and #philosophy and #environment for a largely #environmentaljustice #climatejustice audience...pub rooted in south #texas serving the Earth. ... more coming.

Our first post from @asle-us.bsky.social was a panel our Editor assembled. Worth a listen. #resistance from within the "belly of the beast." #climate #humanrights #justice #chicanx #books #poetry y más

had a lot of fun working with @kitoconnell.com to bring this story to light, amid the immense grief it names. w/ @asle-us.bsky.social

If creative nonfiction is not your jam, ISLE also accepts fiction, poetry, and scholarly articles. Check out their submission criteria as well. And follow @asle-us.bsky.social for more on the study of literature and the environment.

Congratulations to these winners. Sea Change looks amazing and I can’t wait to read it. Excited for @jamieljones.bsky.social and her remarkable book, too!

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...

Janice N. Harrington's Yard Show was a highly praised honorable mention for the 2025 ASLE Creative Book Award: www.asle.org/stay-informe...

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...

Book award winners: Critical: Christina Gerhardt, Sea Change Honorable Mentn: Jamie Jones, @jamieljones.bsky.social Rendered Obsolete Creative: Debbie Urbanski, After World Honorable Mentns: Janice N. Harrington, Yard Show Julie Carrick Dalton,The Last Beekeeper bsky.app/profile/asle... #Booksky

Huge congratulations to the winners of the ASLE book awards: Christina Gerhardt & Debbie Urbanski! I'm so happy that my book, RENDERED OBSOLETE, was given an honorable mention. Especially exciting to be mentioned honorably alongside my colleague, office-neighbor, and friend, Janice Harrington!

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...

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...

Hey ... *kicks pebble* What are you doing next Wednesday, July 23rd? You... you wouldn't want to like. Make art that communicates important messages about climate change, in community with other people in Philadelphia... 🥺 would you? I'll bring soft pretzels & the art supplies 🥹 lu.ma/edq742p1

On the final day of our @asle-us.bsky.social exhibit, @uchicagopress.bsky.social author Allison Carruth stopped by to pose with her book Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech. #ASLE2025

We've got your guide to all the Canadian Content at #ASLE2025 next week! - @asle-us.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/07/05/c... #envhum #envhist #ecocriticism

#GenerationAnalog2025 "PUNK" is a little over two weeks way! Thursday, July 17, 2025! Don't forget to register for this free online conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #GameinLab #analoggamestudies #gamestudies

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

Swamphen Vol. 11: Recentring The Region is now available. Read the wonderful critical-creative works here: openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/Swamphen/iss... #environmentalhumanities @animalstudies.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social @asle-us.bsky.social

Still time to register for #ASLE2025 Biennial #Conference "Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality", happening in July! Program, registrations, etc.: www.asle.org/conference/b... #envhum #ecocriticism & #envhist presenters, please tag us with your paper title for a signal boost!

Big highlight of the semester was getting to host Michele Horrigan at Tilburg University! We captured some highlights here: www.diggitmagazine.com/environmenta... I look forward to talking about this collaboration and Michele's work at summer conferences! @asle-us.bsky.social @asleuki.bsky.social

We're delighted to have two titles shortlisted for the ASLE Book Awards. Congratulations to our author Kamala Joyce Platt (Arizona State University) and editors Julia Fiedorczuk and Pawel Piszczatowski (University of Warsaw)! Find the finalists here and our books below: www.asle.org/stay-informe...

Thank you so much! What an honour!

Attention @asle-us.bsky.social‬ members! We are launching an SIG on Ecogothic and Ecohorror. If you're drawn to haunted environments and creepy creatures, join us at #ASLE2025 (Wed. July 9, 5-6 pm)! OR Email Jen Schell ([email protected]) or Eric Anderson ([email protected]) to express interest.

Very happy that my book, Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling, has been named a finalist for the 2025 ASLE Book Award. And I'm VERY proud to share the slate with so many other amazing authors. uncpress.org/book/9781469...