Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

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."

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.

ASLE Presidents, Conferences and Symposia This 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. +#PresidentYear(s)AffiliationBiennial Conference (Dates)Symposium (Dates)ThemeVenue1Scott Slovic1992-93(1) 2Scott Slovic1993-94University of TokyoCheryll GlotfeltyUniversity of Nevada, Reno(1)Scott Slovic1994-95I (9-11 June 1995) -Colorado State University3Michael P. Branch1995-96I

(13-17 August 1996)Japanese and American Environmental LiteratureUniversity of Hawaii4John Tallmadge1997Union Institute & University, CincinnatiII

(17-19 July)-The Last Best PlaceUniversity of Montana5Louise Westling1998University of Oregon- ---6Walter Isle1999Rice UniversityIII (2-5 June ) -What to Make of a diminished thing: Restoration, Preservation, ConservationWestern Michigan University 7SueEllen Campbell2000Colorado State University-II

(15-17 June)Food and Farming in American Life and LettersUnity College (Maine)8Randall Roorda2001University of Kentucky -III (4-6 January)Desert CrossingsBig Bend National ParkIV

(19-23 June)-Making a Start Out of ParticularsNorthern Arizona University -IV (24-27 October )“Coming Nearer the Ground”: An ASLE Symposium on the SouthUniversity of Mississippi9Terrell F. Dixon2002University of Houston-10Ian Marshall2003V

(3-7 June)-The Solid Earth! The Actual World!: Sea–City–Pond–GardenBoston University11John Elder2004Middlebury College-V

(4-6 June) Nature and Culture in the Northern ForestThe Highland Center, Crawford Notch, New HampshireVI (23-25 September )Globalization and the Environmental Justice MovementUniversity of Arizona, Tucson12Allison Wallace2005Honors College, University of Central ArkansasVI

(21-25 June)-Being in the World, Living With the LandUniversity of Oregon13Ann Fisher-Wirth2006University of Mississippi-VII

(2-4 June )Maine’s Place in the Environmental ImaginationUniversity of Maine at Farmington14Karla Armbruster2007Webster UniversityVII

(12-16 June)-Confluence: literature, art, criticism, science, activism, politics.Wofford College15Rochelle Johnson2008College of Idaho-16Daniel J. Philippon2009University of MinnesotaVIII

(3-6 June)- Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming WorldUniversity of Victoria17Annie Ingram2010VIII

(18-20 June)The Third Annual Rural Heritage Institute: Is Local Enough? Promises and Limits of Local ActionSterling College, Craftsbury Common, Vermont18Ursula K. Heise2011Stanford UniversityIX

(21-26 June)-Species, Space and the Imagination of the GlobalIndiana University, Bloomington19Joni Adamson2012Arizona State University-IX

(14-17 June)Environment, Culture & Place in a Rapidly Changing NorthUniversity of Alaska Southeast20Paul Outka2013University of KansasX

( 28 May – 1 June)- Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, LimitsUniversity of Kansas21Mark C. Long2014Keene State College- 22Catriona Sandilands2015York UniversityXI

(23-27 June)-Notes From Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and JusticeUniversity of Idaho23Christoph Irmscher2016-17Indiana University, BloomingtonXI (7-9 June 2016)Sharp Eyes IX: Local, Regional, Global: The Many Faces of Nature WritingState University of New York College at OneontaXII (8-11 June 2016)The Heart Of The Gila: Wilderness And Water In The WestWestern New Mexico UniversityXIII (21-22 Oct 2016)Toxic Borders And Bondages: Intersecting Ecology With Capitalism, Racism, Heteropatriarchy And (Dis)Possession (Graduate Symposium)University of Michigan, Ann ArborAnthony LioiJuilliard SchoolXII (20-24 June 2017)Rust/Resistance: Works of RecoveryWayne State University24Stacy AlaimoJan 2018 - Dec 2019University of Texas at Arlington (2010-March 2019)University of Oregon (September 2019-) -XIV (14-30 June 2018)A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia In The AnthropoceneA Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium. Co-Sponsored with the University of California, Santa BarbaraXIII

(26-30 June 2019)Paradise on Fire University of California, DavisJeffrey CohenArizona State University25Laura Barbas-Rhoden2020-2021Wofford CollegeBethany WigginUniversity of Pennsylvania26Gisela Heffes2022-23 Rice UniversityGeorge B. HandleyBrigham Young UniversityN/AXIV

(6-9 July) -Oregon Convention Center27Amy Hamilton2024-Northern Michigan UniversityNicole SeymourCalifornia State University, Fullerton

References

External links Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment