Tag: Ecocriticism
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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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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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New EASLCE Bluesky account – Leaving X
Dear EASLCE members, The Advisory Board has debated whether to stay with X or leave for a different social network system. It has been decided that the best for EASLCE was to move to Bluesky, which has been adopted by many other academic associations such as ASLE and others. EASLCE Bluesky account: EASLCE.bsky.social How to…
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CFP: Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities
Green Letters invites papers of up to 6000 words in length for a special issue on Critical Psychedelic Studies and the Environmental Humanities, guest-edited by John Miller (University of Sheffield), Christie Oliver-Hobley (University of Sheffield) and Peter Sands (University of York). It is widely asserted that a ‘psychedelic renaissance’ is underway (Sessa, 2012). After extensive research…
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ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
ASLE 2025 BIENNIAL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE ATMOSPHERES: AIR, INTIMACY, AND INEQUALITY July 8-11, 2025University of Maryland, College Park,ancestral lands of the Piscataway People CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reflecting on the use of tear gas and other chemical weapons during the 2016 Standing Rock protests, Paiute scholar Kristen Simmons notes that “[t]he conditions we breathe in are collective and…
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Ecopoetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry Judith Rauscher
American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed…
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Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies – Reinhard Hennig Emily Lethbridge Michael Schulte (eds)
Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies. Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture. Ed. by Reinhard Hennig, Emily Lethbridge, and Michael Schulte. Turnhout: Brepols 2023 “Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies is the first anthology to combine environmental humanities approaches and the study of premodern Nordic literature and culture. The chapters gathered here present innovative…
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Winner of the EASLCE Essay Prize, Călina-Maria Moldovan
Călina-Maria Moldovan, PhD student at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is the winner of the EASLCE Essay Prize. A jury consisting of members of the EASLCE Advisory Board decided to award the prize to Călina-Maria for her article “The Ocean in Contemporary Norwegian Literature”. The article does, according to the jury, not only “comply with the…
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CFP – 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century
Call for Papers 3rd International Environmental Humanities Conference: Ecocriticisms in the 21st Century Cappadocia University (Mustafapaşa Campus, 50420 Ürgüp/Nevşehir,Turkey) May 20-22, 2024 Confirmed Keynote Speakers Although ecocriticism has always kept its initial emphasis on the “relationship between literature and the physical environment” (Glotfelty 1996), over the last decade it has “entered into fruitful interdisciplinary…
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Arcadiana – Blog Editor (3 open positions)
Blog Editor (3 open positions) Arcadiana, a blog about the environment in literature and culture that is hosted by postgraduate members of EASLCE, has currently three open positions for blog editors. You can find more information on these positions and on how to apply at https://arcadiana.easlce.eu/get-involved/ and below in this email. It would be great if you…
