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Introducing the new EASLCE social media managers
EASLCE has two new social media representatives, Olena Tiaglova, Ph.D. student at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, and Dr. Manon Raffard, in France, who have kindly stepped up to take over all the great work previously done by Stefano Rozzoni and Katie Ritson. Many thanks to both the previous and the new social media teams! Profiles Manon…
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Call for Submissions: EASLCE Prize for Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism
The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) sponsors a prize for the Best Graduate Student Essay in European Ecocriticism. It consists of a stipend of 500 Euros to help cover the costs of attending the next EASLCE conference (at the University of Urtecht, April 13-17 2026) and the opportunity…
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Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game? with Laura op de Beke
EASLCE Webinar “Environmental Game Studies: What Is an Ecological Game?” with Laura op de Beke May 30, 4–5:30 pm CEST Laura op de Beke Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, Screens, and Interfaces, Utrecht University, Netherlands In this webinar we will explore the emerging field of environmental game studies. After a brief introduction to the field…
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Book Reviews for Ecozon@
Book Reviews for Ecozon@ (February 2025) Ecozon@ is seeking reviewers for the following books: Book Reviews (1,000 words, approx.) 1. Alberro, Heather, Emrah Atasoy, Nora Castle, Rhiannon Firth, and Conrad Scott (Eds.) Utopian and Dystopian Explorations of Pandemics and Ecological Breakdown: Entangled Futurities. Routledge, 2024. [Open Access] https://www.routledge.com/Utopian-and-Dystopian-Explorations-of-Pandemics-and-Ecological-Breakdown 2. Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin Cosmological Readings of Contemporary…
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Maragarida Vale de Gato and José Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante
Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis? We were particularly interested in coastal issues or “ecotones,” areas where at least two communities/environments overlap. Participants: Abigail Chabitnoy, Ana Mafalda Leite, Brenda Shaughnessy, Caleb Parkin, David Gewanter, Diana…
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José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos
The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope is broader, transcending the circumstances of their origin to become a meticulous analysis of the contemporary reality of a digitized world, contaminated both biologically and semantically. With tones that…
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Jane Ekstam. Katja’s World Game: The Overstory
Katja’s World Game: The Overstory (2024) is the third part of a trilogy. The six students of the trilogy present a sustainable option for the future in the form of an eco-friendly “ark village”. The village demonstrates not only new ways of building but also features the latest sustainable farming practices. Artificial Intelligence is used…
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Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation Literature. – Chad Weidner
Greening Bohemia suggests that Beat writing contains deep insights into the human-nature relationship, critiques of consumerism, spiritual quests, and a vision for a more harmonious future human existence. The book places the Beat Generation in a larger ecological and cultural narrative, emphasizing its lasting impact and encouraging readers to reconsider its legacy. Greening Bohemia highlights…
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Gabriele Dürbeck and Yixu Lü (eds.). “Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance”.
This Special Issue of Plant Perspectives explores the multifaceted relationships between scientific and artistic expressions and plants in various genres, from literature and art to dance and media. The multidisciplinary contributions in this volume are linked by an exploration of the concept of ‘resonance’ as a potentially meaningful way of establishing and describing an ethical …
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Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature
This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies…
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