Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

{{Short description|American professional association formed in 1992}}

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| abbreviation = ASLE

| pronounce = Az-lee

| formation = {{Start date and years ago|df=yes|p=y|1992|10|9}}

| founder = Cheryll Glotfelty
Michael P. Branch & others

| founding_location = Reno, Nevada,
United States

| leader_title = Managing Director

| leader_name = Amy M. McIntyre
(2004-present)

| type = Nonprofit organization
Professional association
Scholarly association

| tax_id = 54-1640944{{cite web|url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/54-1640944|title=Association for the Study of Literature and Environment|publisher=GuideStar}}

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|Affiliated organizations{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/explore-our-field/affiliated-organizations/|title=Affiliated Organizations|date=April 2016|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}

|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

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|International branches{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/join-our-community/asle-around-the-world/|title=ASLE around the World|date=April 2016|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}

|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

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| publication = [https://www.asle.org/research-write/isle-journal/ Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment] (ISLE)

| headquarters = Keene, New Hampshire,
United States

| region = International

| fields = ecocriticism
environmental humanities

| membership = 1,450

| membership_year = 2019

| website = {{URL|https://www.asle.org/}}

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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."{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22PbbREoiY4C&pg=PA241 | title=Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism | publisher=Cengage Learning | author=Dobie, Ann B. | year=2011 | pages=241 | isbn=978-0-49590-233-1}}{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/vision-history/|title=Vision & History|work=ASLE Home Page|accessdate=January 1, 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Policies_Bylaws2016.pdf|title=ASLE Bylaws|work=ASLE Home Page |date=April 2016|accessdate=January 1, 2018}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/vision-history/|title=ASLE VISION & HISTORY|date=2019|accessdate=May 10, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/archive/|title=Archive|work=ASLE Archive|date=2019|accessdate=May 10, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/conference/affiliated-symposia/archive/|title=Archive|work=ASLE Archive|date=2019|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}

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!President

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|Scott Slovic

|1992-93

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|Scott Slovic

| rowspan="2" |1993-94

|University of Tokyo

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Cheryll Glotfelty

| rowspan="3" |University of Nevada, Reno

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(1)

|Scott Slovic

|1994-95

|I

(9-11 June 1995)

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|Colorado State University

3

|Michael P. Branch

|1995-96

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|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)

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|The Last Best Place

|University of Montana

5

|Louise Westling

|1998

|University of Oregon

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6

|Walter Isle

|1999

|Rice University

|III

(2-5 June )

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|What to Make of a diminished thing: Restoration, Preservation, Conservation

|Western Michigan University

7

|SueEllen Campbell

|2000

|Colorado State University

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|II

(15-17 June)

|Food and Farming in American Life and Letters

|Unity College (Maine)

rowspan="4" |8

| rowspan="4" |Randall Roorda

| rowspan="4" |2001

| rowspan="4" |University of Kentucky

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|III

(4-6 January)

|Desert Crossings

| rowspan="2" |Big Bend National Park

rowspan="2" |IV

(19-23 June)

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rowspan="2" |Making a Start Out of Particulars
Northern Arizona University
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|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

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10

|Ian Marshall

|2003

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|V

(3-7 June)

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|The Solid Earth! The Actual World!: Sea–City–Pond–Garden

|Boston University

rowspan="2" |11

| rowspan="2" |John Elder

| rowspan="2" |2004

| rowspan="2" |Middlebury College

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|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)

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|Being in the World, Living With the Land

|University of Oregon

13

|Ann Fisher-Wirth

|2006

|University of Mississippi

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|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)

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|Confluence: literature,art, criticism, science, activism, politics.

|Wofford College

15

|Rochelle Johnson

|2008

|College of Idaho

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16

|Daniel J. Philippon

|2009

|University of Minnesota

|VIII

(3-6 June)

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|Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World

|University of Victoria

17

|Annie Ingram

|2010

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|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)

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|Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global

|Indiana University, Bloomington

19

|Joni Adamson

|2012

|Arizona State University

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|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)

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|Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits

|University of Kansas

21

|Mark C. Long

|2014

|Keene State College

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22

|Catriona Sandilands

|2015

|York University

|XI

(23-27 June)

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|Notes From Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice

|University of Idaho

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| rowspan="3" |Christoph Irmscher

| rowspan="5" |2016-17

| rowspan="3" |Indiana University, Bloomington{{cite web|title=Leadership & Staff|url=https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/leadership-staff/|publisher=ASLE|accessdate=May 10, 2018}}

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|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

rowspan="2" |XIII

(21-22 Oct 2016)

| rowspan="2" |Toxic Borders And Bondages: Intersecting Ecology With Capitalism, Racism, Heteropatriarchy And (Dis)Possession (Graduate Symposium)

| rowspan="2" |University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

rowspan="2" |Anthony Lioi

| rowspan="2" |Juilliard School

XII

(20-24 June 2017)

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|Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery

|Wayne State University

rowspan="4" |24

| rowspan="2" |Stacy Alaimo

| rowspan="4" |Jan 2018

- Dec 2019

| rowspan="3" |University of Texas at Arlington (2010-March 2019)
University of Oregon (September 2019-)

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|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

rowspan="3" |XIII

(26-30 June 2019)

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| rowspan="3" |Paradise on Fire

| rowspan="3" |University of California, Davis{{cite web|title=Biennial Conference|url=https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/|date=2017|publisher=ASLE|accessdate=May 10, 2018}}

rowspan="2" |Jeffrey Cohen
Arizona State University
rowspan="2" |25

|Laura Barbas-Rhoden

| rowspan="2" |2020-2021

|Wofford College

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Bethany Wiggin

|University of Pennsylvania

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rowspan="2" |26

|Gisela Heffes

| rowspan="2" |2022-23

| Rice University

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George B. Handley

|Brigham Young University

|N/A

|XIV

(6-9 July)

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|Oregon Convention Center

rowspan="2" |27

|Amy Hamilton

| rowspan="2" |2024-

|Northern Michigan University

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Nicole Seymour

|California State University, Fullerton

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