Tag: EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS
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Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023)
Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023) Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes…
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Empirical Ecocriticism – Environmental Narratives for Social Change
Empirical Ecocriticism Environmental Narratives for Social Change There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today’s environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities…
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John Parham – Obituary
It is with deep sadness that we learn of the death of our friend and colleague John Parham. While most strongly involved in our sister organisation ASLE-UKI, John was also well-known and close to many EASLCE members and a frequent participant in our conferences. John was a highly esteemed ecocritical scholar and a very kind,…
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“Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature“ (Palgrave, 2023)
About this book This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles…
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Webinar Report of the 21st EASLCE Webinar: Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature
“Environmental Justice, Narrative, & (Ethnic Minority) Literature (Dr. Isabel Pérez Ramos, University of Oviedo, Spain) 20 April 2023, 4-6 pm (CEST) Participants: The 22nd EASLCE webinar brought us closer to the various facets of environmental justice both as a social movement and as a concern of narrative texts. The group began by taking a look…
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Ecocriticism and the Island : Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago – Pippa Marland (Rowman and Littlefield, December 2022). Ecocriticism and the Island explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness.” This book…
