The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), also known as ASLE-USA, is the principal professional association for American and international scholars of ecocriticism and environmental humanities. It was founded in 1992 at a special session of the Western Literature Association conference in Reno, Nevada for the purpose of "sharing of facts, ideas, and texts concerning the study of literature and the environment."[4][5][6]
The association hosts a biennial conference since 1995, alternating with symposia in non-conference years.
ASLE's journal is Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), a quarterly published by Oxford University Press, in which the most current scholarship in the rapidly evolving field of environmental humanities can often be found.[5]
ASLE Presidents, Conferences and Symposia
editThis is a list of people who have served as presidents of ASLE since its inception in 1992. The biennial conferences/symposia held during their tenure are given along.[7][8][9]
| # | President | Year(s) | Affiliation | Biennial Conference
(Dates) |
Symposium
(Dates) |
Theme | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scott Slovic | 1992-93 | |||||
| (1)
2 |
Scott Slovic | 1993-94 | University of Tokyo | ||||
| Cheryll Glotfelty | University of Nevada, Reno | ||||||
| (1) | Scott Slovic | 1994-95 | I
(9-11 June 1995) |
- | Colorado State University | ||
| 3 | Michael P. Branch | 1995-96 | I
(13-17 August 1996) |
Japanese and American Environmental Literature | University of Hawaii | ||
| 4 | John Tallmadge | 1997 | Union Institute & University, Cincinnati | II
(17-19 July) |
- | The Last Best Place | University of Montana |
| 5 | Louise Westling | 1998 | University of Oregon | - | - | - | - |
| 6 | Walter Isle | 1999 | Rice University | III
(2-5 June ) |
- | What to Make of a diminished thing: Restoration, Preservation, Conservation | Western Michigan University |
| 7 | SueEllen Campbell | 2000 | Colorado State University | - | II
(15-17 June) |
Food and Farming in American Life and Letters | Unity College (Maine) |
| 8 | Randall Roorda | 2001 | University of Kentucky | - | III
(4-6 January) |
Desert Crossings | Big Bend National Park |
| IV
(19-23 June) |
- | Making a Start Out of Particulars | |||||
| Northern Arizona University | |||||||
| - | IV
(24-27 October ) |
“Coming Nearer the Ground”: An ASLE Symposium on the South | University of Mississippi | ||||
| 9 | Terrell F. Dixon | 2002 | University of Houston | - | |||
| 10 | Ian Marshall | 2003 | V
(3-7 June) |
- | The Solid Earth! The Actual World!: Sea–City–Pond–Garden | Boston University | |
| 11 | John Elder | 2004 | Middlebury College | - | V
(4-6 June) |
Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest | The Highland Center, Crawford Notch, New Hampshire |
| VI
(23-25 September ) |
Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement | University of Arizona, Tucson | |||||
| 12 | Allison Wallace | 2005 | Honors College, University of Central Arkansas | VI
(21-25 June) |
- | Being in the World, Living With the Land | University of Oregon |
| 13 | Ann Fisher-Wirth | 2006 | University of Mississippi | - | VII
(2-4 June ) |
Maine’s Place in the Environmental Imagination | University of Maine at Farmington |
| 14 | Karla Armbruster | 2007 | Webster University | VII
(12-16 June) |
- | Confluence: literature,art, criticism, science, activism, politics. | Wofford College |
| 15 | Rochelle Johnson | 2008 | College of Idaho | - | |||
| 16 | Daniel J. Philippon | 2009 | University of Minnesota | VIII
(3-6 June) |
- | Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World | University of Victoria |
| 17 | Annie Ingram | 2010 | VIII
(18-20 June) |
The Third Annual Rural Heritage Institute: Is Local Enough? Promises and Limits of Local Action | Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, Vermont | ||
| 18 | Ursula Heise | 2011 | Stanford University | IX
(21-26 June) |
- | Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 19 | Joni Adamson | 2012 | Arizona State University | - | IX
(14-17 June) |
Environment, Culture & Place in a Rapidly Changing North | University of Alaska Southeast |
| 20 | Paul Outka | 2013 | University of Kansas | X
( 28 May – 1 June) |
- | Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits | University of Kansas |
| 21 | Mark C. Long | 2014 | Keene State College | - | |||
| 22 | Catriona Sandilands | 2015 | York University | XI
(23-27 June) |
- | Notes From Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice | University of Idaho |
| 23 | Christoph Irmscher | 2016-17 | Indiana University, Bloomington[10] | XI
(7-9 June 2016) |
Sharp Eyes IX: Local, Regional, Global: The Many Faces of Nature Writing | State University of New York College at Oneonta | |
| XII
(8-11 June 2016) |
The Heart Of The Gila: Wilderness And Water In The West | Western New Mexico University | |||||
| XIII
(21-22 Oct 2016) |
Toxic Borders And Bondages: Intersecting Ecology With Capitalism, Racism, Heteropatriarchy And (Dis)Possession (Graduate Symposium) | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |||||
| Anthony Lioi | Juilliard School[10] | ||||||
| XII
(20-24 June 2017) |
Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery | Wayne State University | |||||
| 24 | Stacy Alaimo | Jan 2018
- Dec 2019 |
University of Texas at Arlington (2010-March 2019) University of Oregon (September 2019-) |
- | XIV
(14-30 June 2018) |
A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia In The Anthropocene | A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium.
Co-Sponsored with the University of California, Santa Barbara |
| XIII
(26-30 June 2019) |
Paradise on Fire | University of California, Davis[11] | |||||
| Jeffrey Cohen | |||||||
| Arizona State University | |||||||
| 25 | Laura Barbas-Rhoden | 2020-2021 | Wofford College | ||||
| Bethany Wiggin | University of Pennsylvania | ||||||
| 26 | Gisela Heffes | 2022- | Rice University | ||||
| George B. Handley | Brigham Young University | N/A | XIV
(6-9 July) |
- | Oregon Convention Center |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Association for the Study of Literature and Environment". GuideStar.
- ^ "Affiliated Organizations". April 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
- ^ "ASLE around the World". April 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
- ^ Dobie, Ann B. (2011). Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Cengage Learning. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-49590-233-1.
- ^ a b "Vision & History". ASLE Home Page. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
- ^ "ASLE Bylaws" (PDF). ASLE Home Page. April 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
- ^ "ASLE VISION & HISTORY". 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^ "Archive". ASLE Archive. 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
- ^ "Archive". ASLE Archive. 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
- ^ a b "Leadership & Staff". ASLE. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
- ^ "Biennial Conference". ASLE. 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2018.