We are getting ever closer to the conference in July! Registration is still open for both in-person and virtual attendance.

ASLE will again honor the best papers by graduate students at the 2023 conference. Deadline for submissions is June 5, 2023. Visit the Participant Information Page,

and open the Graduate Student Writing Awards tab for details.

With two successful seasons of our Spotlight Series in the books, we are continuing ASLE Spotlight in 2023 as a way to feature the range of wonderful work our members continue to produce in the environmental humanities. 

As in past years, each event will feature moderated conversations with authors/creators of work chosen for thematic coherence across diverse media such as books, films, web projects, exhibits, etc.; include both critical and creative work; and highlight publicly engaged scholarship. Deadline for submissions is July 15 for episodes to be broadcast this fall.

The engagements continue this year, with Water+Fire on June 9, 2023.

The Center for Environmental Studies at Rice University, Houston-based Literal Publishing, and ASLE continue to produce their conversation series: Planet Now! / Planeta herido: una conversación. The series features interviews to Latin American writers, artists and activists, in Spanish, which are then transcribed, translated, and presented with English subtitles added. The goal of this series is to give visibility in the US to the Latin American environmental production, which would otherwise be unnoticed within an American audience. And it seeks to foster collaboration and public dialogue about environmental issues and promote equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in just environmental practices. Check out the conversation with Mexican artist Verónica Gerber Bicecci in the video linked to below.

If you have an idea for a future episode of ASLE’s EcoCast co-hosts Brandon Galm and Lindsay S.R. Jolivette would love to hear from you. Please submit your proposal via this form.

Christina Gerhardt, Associate Professor and Founder of the Environmental Humanities initiative at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and the Editor-in-Chief of ISLE is this episode's guest. We discuss Christina’s recently released book Sea Change: Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, which challenges us to re-consider the idea of mapping in a world increasingly affected by global warming.

Joshua Trey Barnett discusses his recent book Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence. We talk about extinction, what it means to grieve nature, and even get a little personal with the idea of naming and loss of pets.

ISLE Issue 30.1 Now Available Online

The latest issue of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (Volume 30.1, Spring 2023) is out. As usual, it features a an eclectic mix of articles, poetry, book reviews, the free-access article "Queer Ecology in (Gay) Post-Pastoral Cinema" by Nicholas Tyler Reich, and Editor's Choice articles "Blackness after the End of the World: Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Dub Ecologies" by Henry Ivry and Max Karpinski, and" Sensing Black Coral" by Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. View the full Table of Contents at the link below.

If you are interested in submitting, we are excited to share that ISLE has significantly shortened its times from submission to decision and submission to publication, with the goal of assisting authors.

ISLE is available as an online-only publication to ASLE members and through various libraries that subscribe. If you are a current member, just log in to the ASLE member community and look for the link to access the journal. If you are not a member but would like to become one, follow this link to join.

Does your home institution subscribe to ISLE? If you are returning to or starting at an academic institution this year, check if your college or university subscribes to ISLE via their library portal. If your college or university subscribes, your colleagues and students, even if not ASLE members, can read both current and archived ISLE issues. Subscription info is available here: https://academic.oup.com/isle/subscribe

If you don't have a subscription yet, but want to explore a sampling of the content from this and prior issues, check out the unlocked articles for reading at OUP's ISLE Editor's Choice page.

ASLE's Scholar of the Month series is a place to highlight the emerging scholars in our membership who are contributing to the environmental humanities. Members can nominate their favorite ASLE scholar via this link, and read about our most recent Scholar of the Month at the link below. Thanks to our new Digital Strategies Coordinator Alejandro Ponce de León for rebooting this series after a brief hiatus!

Please welcome our new Digital Strategies Coordinator (DSC), Alejandro Ponce de León! Alejandro is is a Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Studies with an emphasis in Science and Technology Studies at The University of California, Davis. He brings a wealth of experience with online content creation to ASLE, including in his role as Editor-in-Chief and content developer of Humanidades Ambientales, a community dedicated to fostering conversations about the Environmental Humanities in Latin America.

Scott Edward Anderson, award-winning poet and writer, and third-generation Azorean American, is leading an Azores Writing Retreat from 13-18 October 2023 on São Miguel Island, Portugal. Read more and register.

There are lots of new books at our Member Bookshelf, do check them out at the link below! If you are a current member of ASLE and have a recent publication, please fill out this submission form to have it added to the Bookshelf. 

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