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."[4][5][6]

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
AbbreviationASLE
Pronunciation
  • Az-lee
Formation9 October 1992 (1992-10-09)
FounderCheryll Glotfelty
Michael P. Branch & others
Founded atReno, Nevada,
United States
TypeNonprofit organization
Professional association
Scholarly association
54-1640944[1]
Affiliated organizations[2]

American Literature Association
American Studies Association
Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Disciplinary Associations’ Network for Sustainability
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900
Modern Language Association
Midwest Modern Language Association
Northeast Modern Language Association
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
Science Fiction Research Association
Society of Early Americanists
Society for Ecocriticism Studies in Japan
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Society for the Study of American Women Writers
Thoreau Society
Western Literature Association

International branches[3]

ALECC (Canada)
ASLEC-ANZ (Australia – New Zealand)
ASLE-J (Japan)
ASLE-Brasil (Brazil)
ASLE-Korea
EASLCE (Europe)
ASLE-Taiwan
ASLE-UKI (UK and Ireland)
ASLE-ASEAN (ASEAN)
tiNai (India)
ASLE-Pakistan

HeadquartersKeene, New Hampshire,
United States
Region
International
Fieldsecocriticism
environmental humanities
Membership (2019)
1,450
Managing Director
Amy M. McIntyre (2004-present)[1]
PublicationInterdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)
Websitewww.asle.org

The association hosts a biennial conference since 1995, alternating with symposia in non-conference years. Its 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

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.[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 Wofford College
Bethany Wiggin University of Pennsylvania
26 TBA 2021 N/A XIV

(6-9 July)

 - Oregon Convention Center

See also

References
  1. "Association for the Study of Literature and Environment". GuideStar.
  2. "Affiliated Organizations". April 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  3. "ASLE around the World". April 2016. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  4. Dobie, Ann B. (2011). Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. Cengage Learning. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-49590-233-1.
  5. "Vision & History". ASLE Home Page. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  6. "ASLE Bylaws" (PDF). ASLE Home Page. April 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2018.
  7. "ASLE VISION & HISTORY". 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  8. "Archive". ASLE Archive. 2019. Retrieved May 10, 2020.
  9. "Archive". ASLE Archive. 2019. Retrieved May 13, 2020.
  10. "Leadership & Staff". ASLE. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  11. "Biennial Conference". ASLE. 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
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