Tag: Ecocriticism

  • Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert

    Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert

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    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…

  • Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

    Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

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    What happens to literature when the Anthropocene is no longer merely a descriptive category, but a profound transformation of the ways in which we know, feel, imagine and inhabit the world? How can the contemporary novel respond to a crisis that calls into question the boundaries between the human and the non-human, nature and culture,…

  • New M.A. Program “Environmental Humanities” (University of Würzburg, Germany)

    New M.A. Program “Environmental Humanities” (University of Würzburg, Germany)

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    A new master’s program in “Environmental Humanities” will be starting at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in October 2026. The interdisciplinary program combines concepts, theories, and methods from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to investigate the historical, cultural, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of environmental and ecological issues, such as climate change, mass extinction,…

  • 27th EASLCE Webinar: Discover the Popsicule: How Pop Culture Shapes the Meanings of Science and the Environment (Crys Clitheroe, AnnaSophie Jürgens)

    27th EASLCE Webinar: Discover the Popsicule: How Pop Culture Shapes the Meanings of Science and the Environment (Crys Clitheroe, AnnaSophie Jürgens)

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    April 9, 2026 | 9–10:30 am CEST Popular culture is one of the most powerful spaces where publics encounter science, form attitudes toward it and imagine what scientific, technological and environmental futures might look like. Film and comics, for example, reach global audiences and offer a narrative imagination lab where emerging technologies and environmental urgencies (and…

  • CFP – Fluid Archives: Rethinking Agency in the Hydro-Commons

    CFP – Fluid Archives: Rethinking Agency in the Hydro-Commons

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    In the “storied seas” of the Anthropocene, water is never merely a backdrop; it is an archive (Oppermann 2019). Its ebb and flow resemble the turning over of eternal epigraphs. The sustained contact between groundwater and surface water over centuries—and indeed, for as long as the earth has existed—has established persistent waterscapes that give life…

  • First Seed Interview -Ecocritical Dialogues with José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

    First Seed Interview -Ecocritical Dialogues with José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

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    Primera Entrevista Semilla | Diálogos Eco críticos con José Manuel Marrero Henríquez “In this seminal interview, we converse with José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, writer and a renowned researcher on ecocriticism and philological-cultural studies. Here, we deepen our understanding of the relationship between nature, territory, literature, and memory, opening avenues to understand how ecocritical thinking assists…

  • CFP: AmLit: American Literatures; Special Issue on “Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn”

    CFP: AmLit: American Literatures; Special Issue on “Speculative Cultures and the Metamodern Turn”

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    This special issue of AmLit: American Literatures explores the role of 21st-century speculative fiction as a central site for metamodern cultural production in contemporary Anglophone literature and media. Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen define metamodernism “[a]s a structure of feeling that emerged in the 2000s and has become the dominant cultural logic of…

  • Join the Arcadiana Editorial Team (5volunteer roles)

    Join the Arcadiana Editorial Team (5volunteer roles)

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    Join the Arcadiana Editorial Team (5 volunteer roles) Another way to get involved with Arcadiana, the blog of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE), is by joining our volunteer editorial team. We are currently opening five new positions to expand our activities and reach: Blog Editors (3 positions) Blog Editors…

  • PhD course at the University of Agder Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment

    PhD course at the University of Agder Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and Environment

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    PhD course at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 26–28 November 2025 Ecocriticism, that is, research focusing on the relation between literature, culture, and the environment, is a rapidly growing field both internationally and within Norway. As an environmental humanities discipline, ecocriticism contributes to interdisciplinary environmental research from the perspective of literary and cultural studies.…

  • Biennial Conference Registration ASLE-UKI

    Biennial Conference Registration ASLE-UKI

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    We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the Biennial Conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI), which will be hosted by the University of Galway, 9th, 12th-14th August 2025. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and…