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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 22h

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...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 1d

Just a few hours left to submit to ASLE Spotlight at forms.gle/rZ8gAs6bpUGx...

Call for Submissions to ASLE Spotlight 2026: New Work in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities

Update: Submission Deadline Extended to October 6, 2025 In continuing to foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally, ASLE is continuing the Spotlight Series in 2026. The s...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 1d

Just a few hours left to submit at forms.gle/rZ8gAs6bpUGx...

Call for Submissions to ASLE Spotlight 2026: New Work in Ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities

Update: Submission Deadline Extended to October 6, 2025 In continuing to foster opportunities for our members and community to gather digitally, ASLE is continuing the Spotlight Series in 2026. The s...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 6d

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...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 21d

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...

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Plant Perspectives Journal @plantperspectives.bsky.social · 21d

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

Poster for the event Plants, Memory Belonging

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 26d

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 · 27d

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...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Sep 8

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 🌿🙏

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Action without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse. By Nathan K. Hensley

Famously, poetry makes nothing happen—nor should we expect it to, according to Action without Hope: poetry is not responsible for fixing a broken world. Na

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Sep 5

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...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 15

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.

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#climate #literature #ecolit #clifi #environment

graphic cover of flowers, trees, and ecologicial distress w/ headline reading: 'can poetry save the world from extractivist plunder and climate violence?'

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Kate Huber (she/her) @ecocritickate.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

Irish Ecomedia

The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and futureIreland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Sep 3

The call for submissions for ASLE Spotlight 2026 is out with deadline October 1, 2025, read it here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

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ASLE EcoCast @asleecocast.bsky.social · Aug 3

Our newest episode is out! Join us for a conversation with Rachel DiNitto about disasters and ecocinema in the Japanese context.
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Defining Disaster, Defining Ecocinema: Taking a Closer Look at Japan with Rachel DiNitto | ASLE EcoCast Podcast

For this month’s episode, we sat down with Rachel DiNitto to discuss the pioneering edited volume Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema (2024) and her own chapter in it on "Toxicoscapes." With thematic cov...

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

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.”

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kaia sand speaking at asle. headline reads: "as attacks on unhoused increase, kaia sand archives alternatives to criminilization"

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Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

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

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 13

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

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Harmanity (Gregory Harman) @harmanity.bsky.social · Aug 14

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

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 8

ASLE 2025: #Birds, Barrios, Borders, & #Books—#Chicanx Poetics and Publishing from the Belly of the Beast
Here's @mcortezwriter.bsky.social opening our @asle-us.bsky.social coverage from the biennial gathering last month. More to come.

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#ej #climate #poetry

authors/activists kamala platt, marisol cortez, carolina hinojosa, edward vidaurre speaking on birds, barrios, borders, & books

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M Cortez @mcortez.net · Aug 14

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

Deceleration @deceleration.news · Aug 14

ASLE 2025: From #BartonSprings Attack to #Poland’s ‘Sister Rivers’—Femme Friendship as Eco-Resistance

' #Queer #ecology’ can show the way toward an alternative politics capable of establishing and honoring ‘femme-coded’ ways of thriving beyond violence.

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collage illustrating title: 'from barton springs attack to poland's sister rivers—femme friendship as eco-resistance

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Geetha Iyer @geetha-iyer.bsky.social · Aug 4

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.

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