| Abbreviation: | ASLE |
| Pronounce: | Az-lee |
| 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[1] |
| Publication: | 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 |
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."[2] [3] [4]
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.[3]
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.[5] [6] [7]
| 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) | rowspan="2" | - | 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 | |
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| 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|-| rowspan="5" |23| rowspan="3" |Christoph Irmscher| rowspan="5" |2016-17| rowspan="3" |Indiana University, Bloomington[8] | rowspan="4" ||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)||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-)| -|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)| rowspan="3" || rowspan="3" |Paradise on Fire | rowspan="3" |University of California, Davis[9] |-| rowspan="2" |Jeffrey Cohen|-|Arizona State University|-| rowspan="2" |25|Laura Barbas-Rhoden| rowspan="2" |2020-2021|Wofford College|||||-|Bethany Wiggin|University of Pennsylvania|||||-| rowspan="2" |26|Gisela Heffes| rowspan="2" |2022-| Rice University|||||-|George B. Handley|Brigham Young University|N/A|XIV (6-9 July)| -|Oregon Convention Center|} External links
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