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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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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 22h
New book from our Member Bookshelf: Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl By Mandy-Suzanne Wong Graywolf Press, 2026 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I saw a meme today that said that books are proof that strangers can meet across centuries and still understand each other. That really resonated.
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Call for Submissions for the 2027 ASLE Book Awards is out, all info and submission links at www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And winner of a 2024 ASLE Subvention Grant!
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The world will miss him, and ASLE has lost one of it's first honorary members.
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace to the inimitable Wendell Berry
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland By Kate Huber University of Virginia Press, 2026 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Find out more about ASLE 2027 Conference Keynote Speaker Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner at www.nahwilet.com #asle27 #envhum
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Read more about ASLE 2027 Biennial Conference keynote speaker M Jackson at www.drmjackson.com #asle27
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Find out more about ASLE 2027 Conference keynote speaker Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe at www.taoleighgoffe.com #asle27 #envhum
Yellow cover, book titled Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders Edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler Paloma Press & Poets for Science, 2025 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
ASLE 2027 Call for Proposals is out! June 22-24 at the University of Maryland, College Park. Deadline for submissions January 8, 2027. Read the CFP: www.asle.org/conference/b... #EnvHum #AcademicSky #ecocriticism
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College. Review begins Sept. 15! #academicsky careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/18099
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Bowdoin College’s Environmental Studies Program invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty appointment in environmental humanities at the Assistant Professor level, beginning July 1, 20...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: Failures of the Imagination: Reckoning with Oil in Venezuelan Cultural Production By Elizabeth Barrios University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Our June 2026 ASLE Scholar of the Month is Sreya Ann Oommen! Learn more about Sreya's work on our website: www.asle.org/stay-informe.... #academicsky
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: Starfish Blues: A Memoir By Rasheena Fountain Climate Conscious Collabs Press, 2026 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
ISLE, a leading journal in the environmental humanities, is seeking 2 Associate Editors to begin on July 1, 2026. Read the call for applications (deadline June 15) at www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
June 10 is the deadline to apply for an ASLE Grant, we offer translation and subvention grants of up to $1000 each. Read more and apply: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: The Abyss Stares Back: Encounters with Deep Sea Life By Stacy Alaimo University of Minnesota Press, 2025 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our May 2026 ASLE Scholar of the Month is Jepri Ali Saiful! Learn more about Jepri's work on our website: www.asle.org/stay-informe.... #academicsky
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: Channeling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry By Serena Ferrando University of Toronto Press, 2026 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
#newpublication: 'Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction. Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative" by @asle-us.bsky.social scholar of the month Chiara Xausa! Info: www.peterlang.com/document/160... On Chiara's work: www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum #ecology #climatefiction #ecocriticism
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Peter Lang Verlag - Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction
This book explores the interplay between the transformative vision of feminist environmental humanities and the critical contribution of feminist ...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
A new episode of ASLE EcoCast is out! Climate Influencers: #Climate #Sustainability in Storytelling with Denise Baden, who talks about her work as a sustainability professor in a business school. We discuss her initiatives and what's to come. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: Living Roots: The Promise of Perennial Foods Edited by Liz Carlisle and Aubrey Streit Krug Island Press/Princeton University Press, 2026 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Our April 2026 ASLE Scholar of the Month is Chiara Xausa! Learn more about Chiara's work on our website: www.asle.org/stay-informe... #academicsky
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: If the Owl Calls By Sharon White Betty Books, WTAW Press, 2025 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: There Are as Many Songs in the World as Branches of Coral By Elizabeth Jacobson Free Verse Editions/Parlor Press, 2025 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was a Man: Metamorphoses, Entomological and Human By Boria Sax Reaktion Books, 2025 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
ASLE's Regional Collaboratories Online Gathering was rescheduled for this Friday, April 10 at 1pm EDT. Join the #envhum conversation by registering here: forms.gle/hG9estmiESqu...
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ASLE Regional Collaboratories Online Gathering
PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE: Friday April 10, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00pm Eastern Daylight Time Event Platform: Zoom (link to join will be mailed to registrants the week of the event) Questions? Email us at i...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
cehab.brown.edu/events/extra... Center for Environmental Humanities at Brown Hybrid Symposium • Extractive Zones in the Digital Age, April 9-10, 2026
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A Symposium • Extractive Zones in the Digital Age
Thursday, April 9, 2026 & Friday, April 10, 2026
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: Accidental Gardens: New & Revised By Rob Carney Wakefield Press, 2025 www.asle.org/stay.../acci...
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A big TY to our friends @nichecanada.bsky.social for sharing the news about our new podcast series Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures niche-canada.org/2026/01/17/n... @eseh.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net @asle-us.bsky.social #Envhist #EnvHums #MountainHist #MountainHums
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New Podcast - Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures
In the first episode, they interview interviews anthropologist Alexandra Cotofana on Romanian Carpathians, sentient xenophobic landscapes, ethnography, history, nationalism, and links between mountain...
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ASLE-UKI @asleuki.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
📣Deadline: 31 March 2026 Are you a PGR/ECR working in environmental humanities? Join us at Chichester University for a friendly and stimulating conference! @asle-us.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🎺NEW BLOG POST🎺 'Dorothy Wordsworth’s Trees, Part 1: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals' Here I explore what trees meant to Dorothy and how she writes about them in the G&A journals. More to come! will-sherwood.com/2026/03/24/d...
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Dorothy Wordsworth’s Trees, Part 1: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
I have been enthralled by the writings of Dorothy Wordsworth ever since I first read her Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals (G&A) (1798-1803).1 In Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wor…
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Midge Raymond @midgeraymond.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What a wonderful conversation about multi-species connections, literature, reading, and writing with @asle-us.bsky.social & Boria Sax, Lesley Wheeler, Lay Sion Ng, Nate Otjen, Mildred Kiconco Barya, & Amy McIntyre. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBlt...
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2026 ASLE Spotlight: Multispecies Connections
YouTube video by Amy McIntyre
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The recording of our #envhum Spotlight on "Multispecies Connections" is now available for viewing at www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: Alaska Literary Field Guide Edited by Nancy Lord, Marybeth Holleman, & Sharlene Grace Moler. Mountaineers Books, 2026 www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The online journal Regeneration: Environment, Art, Culture seeks contributions for a special issue on working conditions in the Environmental Humanities. www.asle.org/calls-for-pa...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New book from our Member Bookshelf: The Season of Birds and Stones: Essays By Yelizaveta P. Renfro University of Georgia Press, 2026 www.asle.org/.../the-seas...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
There's still time to register to join us for the final #envhum ASLE Spotlight of 2026, "Multispecies Connections"--Friday, March 13 @ 1pm EDT. See www.asle.org/stay-informe... to read more, registration form at forms.gle/XSVvmkub9xrx...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The latest excellent episode of @asleecocast.bsky.social is out--an interview with Matthew Thompson about contamination in in 1970s #scifi films and his forthcoming book _On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s_ www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Register to catch the 3rd and final 2026 ASLE Spotlight episode! "Multispecies Connections" is on Friday, March 13, 2026 1-2pm EDT, read details about guests/works and register at www.asle.org/stay-informe... or register directly via forms.gle/XSVvmkub9xrx...
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Spotlight, New Work in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities
Multispecies Connections
Featuring: 
John Yunker and Midge Raymond, Animal Writes
Boria Sax, The Butterfly Who Dreamt Himself a Man
Lesley Wheeler, Mycocosmic
Lay Sion Ng, Hemingway, Ecology and Culture
Friday March 13  •  1 PM EDT
Info + Registration: https://bit.ly/ASLEspotlight26
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Thinking of presenting on the #envhum at MLA 2027? ASLE has 2 session calls, consider a submission. Deadline for both is March 11, 2026: www.asle.org/calls-for-pa...
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ASLE » ASLE Panels at MLA 2027
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Madison Jones @ecorhetor.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
I was so honored to get to share work from @dwell-lab.bsky.social on the North Woods Project in this amazing feature. Thanks @asle-us.bsky.social!
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The recording of our ASLE Spotlight on "Embodied Approaches" in the environmental humanities is now posted online--watch now: www.asle.org/stay-informe...
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New episode from ASLE EcoCast, "Cows in the Caribbean: Cattle Chat with Chaz and Andrew"--Chaz Yingling and Andrew Kettler chat about their forthcoming book: The Once and the Future Cow. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky #ecocriticism
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ASLE EcoCast @asleecocast.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
An episode is now live with Andrew Kettler and Charlton W. Yingling rethinking the history of the cow as it connects to the Caribbean. Click the link below. asleecocast.podbean.com #EnvironmentalHumanities
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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
There's still time to sign up for ASLE Spotlight "Embodied Approaches" this Friday, Feb. 6 / 1pm EST! Info + Registration: bit.ly/ASLEspotligh... #academicsky
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