Fantastic Spaces and Places The second European Conference on the FantasticKarlstad, Sweden15-17 June, 2027 Keynote Speakers Jerry Määttä, Stockholm University Jerry Määttä is Associate Professor in Literature and lecturer in History and Cultural Studies at Stockholm University. A recurring focus of his work is the ways in which popular literature and other cultural forms imagine… read more
The editors of a volume under contract with Routledge’s Environmental Literature, Culture and Media series are seeking a 7,000-word essay on Monique Roffey’s The Mermaid of Black Conch. The volume focuses on rewritten water myths in English and situates itself in current debates in the blue and environmental humanities. It grows out of an international conference on the topic that the editors… read more
September 18, 2026 | 4-5pm CEST In this webinar titled “Ask the Editors,” Professor Peggy Karpouzou, Editor-in-Chief of Ecokritike and Series Editor of the Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities, Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, Associate and Managing Editor of Ecokritike and Series Editor of the Exeter Studies in Environmental Humanities, Dr. Emily Elliott, Director of H-Net Journals and… read more
From ancient fables to modern science, insects and their metamorphoses have long inspired human understanding of life’s transitions. This original and engaging book traces how these transformations have shaped rituals around birth, marriage, and death, while also provoking deep questions about identity. Through stories that connect Zhuang Zhou’s butterfly dream to figures like Kafka, Merian,… read more
The 11th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Join the Orca Uprising! – Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice[/caption]Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment took place at Utrecht University from 14–17 April 2026 under the theme “Join the Orca Uprising! Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice.” Hosted by the Faculty of Humanities, this was the… read more
Special Issue: Italian Poetry & Ecology Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, Volume 41, Number 1 Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature announces the upcoming publication of Volume 41, Number 1, a special issue devoted to Italian Poetry & Ecology, edited by Jessica Beasley, Gabriele Belletti, and Silvia Valisa. The issue… read more
directed by Béné Meillon, Université d’Angers, France Dancing Bodies of Water is a research-creation project associated with the Sea More Blue interdisciplinary ecopoetic research group based at Université d’Angers, France, and working on Oceanic and aquatic imaginaries, perception, and representations. The project was achieved over a period of two years and a half and involved… read more
Editor: Dr. Niamh Donnellan Publisher: Vernon Press This edited collection explores the influence culture has on attitudes towards environmentalism in Ireland. It demonstrates that working with indigenous peoples who have deep-seated relationships built with their landscapes offers nuanced interventions that can connect communities with place, promoting environmental awareness. This form of ecological intervention can provide opportunities for… read more
What does sustainability mean when nature is understood not merely as a resource but as a bearer of subjectivity? What underlying assumptions shape our current thinking about sustainability, and where are its limits? Madeleine Hugai demonstrates that prevailing concepts are heavily human-centered and thus overlook important aspects. As an alternative, she develops an expanded concept… read more
Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters. In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring… read more
