{{Short description|American professional association formed in 1992}} {{Infobox organization | logo = | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image_alt = | caption = | abbreviation = ASLE | pronunciation = Az-lee | formation = {{Start date and years ago|df=yes|p=y|1992|10|9}} | founder = Cheryll Glotfelty<br />Michael P. Branch & others | founding_location = Reno, Nevada,<br />United States | leader_title = Managing Director | leader_name = Amy M. McIntyre<br /><small>(2004-present)<ref name="guidestar" /></small> | type = Nonprofit organization<br />Professional association<br />Scholarly association | tax_id = 54-1640944<ref name="guidestar">{{cite web|url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/54-1640944|title=Association for the Study of Literature and Environment|publisher=GuideStar}}</ref> {{hidden |Affiliated organizations<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/explore-our-field/affiliated-organizations/|title=Affiliated Organizations|date=April 2016|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}</ref> |American Literature Association<br/>American Studies Association<br/>Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures<br/>Association of Writers & Writing Programs<br/>Disciplinary Associations' Network for Sustainability<br/>The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900<br/>Modern Language Association<br/>Midwest Modern Language Association<br/>Northeast Modern Language Association<br/>Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association<br/>Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association<br/>South Atlantic Modern Language Association<br/>Science Fiction Research Association<br/>Society of Early Americanists<br/>Society for Ecocriticism Studies in Japan<br/>Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts<br/>Society for the Study of American Women Writers<br/>Thoreau Society<br/>Western Literature Association |headerstyle=background:#ccccff |style=text-align:center; }} {{hidden |International branches<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/join-our-community/asle-around-the-world/|title=ASLE around the World|date=April 2016|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}</ref> |ALECC <small>(Canada)<br/> ASLEC-ANZ (Australia – New Zealand)<br/>ASLE-J (Japan)<br/>ASLE-Brasil (Brazil)<br/>ASLE-Korea<br/>EASLCE (Europe)<br/>ASLE-Taiwan<br/>ASLE-UKI (UK and Ireland)<br/>ASLE-ASEAN (ASEAN)<br/>tiNai (India)<br/>ASLE-Pakistan</small> |headerstyle=background:#ccccff |style=text-align:center; }} | publication = [https://www.asle.org/research-write/isle-journal/ ''Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment''] (ISLE) | headquarters = Keene, New Hampshire,<br />United States | region_served = International | fields = ecocriticism<br />environmental humanities | num_members = 1,450 | num_members_year = <small>2019</small> | website = {{URL|https://www.asle.org/}} }}
The '''Association for the Study of Literature and Environment''' ('''ASLE'''), also known as '''ASLE-USA''', is the principal professional association for American and international scholars of ecocriticism and environmental humanities. It was founded in 1992 at a special session of the Western Literature Association conference in Reno, Nevada for the purpose of "sharing of facts, ideas, and texts concerning the study of literature and the environment."<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22PbbREoiY4C&pg=PA241 | title=Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism | publisher=Cengage Learning | author=Dobie, Ann B. | year=2011 | pages=241 | isbn=978-0-49590-233-1}}</ref><ref name="Vision & History">{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/vision-history/|title=Vision & History|work=ASLE Home Page|accessdate=January 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asle.org/wp-content/uploads/ASLE_Policies_Bylaws2016.pdf|title=ASLE Bylaws|work=ASLE Home Page |date=April 2016|accessdate=January 1, 2018}}</ref>
The association hosts a biennial conference since 1995, alternating with symposia in non-conference years.
ASLE's journal is ''Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment'' (''ISLE''), a quarterly published by Oxford University Press, in which the most current scholarship in the rapidly evolving field of environmental humanities can often be found.<ref name="Vision & History"/>
== ASLE Presidents, Conferences and Symposia == This is a list of people who have served as presidents of ASLE since its inception in 1992. The biennial conferences/symposia held during their tenure are given along.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/vision-history/|title=ASLE VISION & HISTORY|date=2019|accessdate=May 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/archive/|title=Archive|work=ASLE Archive|date=2019|accessdate=May 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.asle.org/conference/affiliated-symposia/archive/|title=Archive|work=ASLE Archive|date=2019|accessdate=May 13, 2020}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |+ !# !President !Year(s) !Affiliation !Biennial Conference (Dates) !Symposium (Dates) !Theme !Venue |- |1 |Scott Slovic |1992-93 | | | | | |- | rowspan="2" |(1) 2 |Scott Slovic | rowspan="2" |1993-94 |University of Tokyo | | | | |- |Cheryll Glotfelty | rowspan="3" |University of Nevada, Reno | | | | |- |(1) |Scott Slovic |1994-95 |I (9-11 June 1995) | - | |Colorado State University |- |3 |Michael P. Branch |1995-96 | |I
(13-17 August 1996) |''Japanese and American Environmental Literature'' |University of Hawaii |- |4 |John Tallmadge |1997 |Union Institute & University, Cincinnati |II
(17-19 July) |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |''The Last Best Place'' |University of Montana |- |5 |Louise Westling |1998 |University of Oregon |<nowiki>- </nowiki> |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |- |6 |Walter Isle |1999 |Rice University |III (2-5 June ) | - |''What to Make of a diminished thing: Restoration, Preservation, Conservation'' |Western Michigan University |- |7 |SueEllen Campbell |2000 |Colorado State University |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |II
(15-17 June) |''Food and Farming in American Life and Letters'' |Unity College (Maine) |- | rowspan="4" |8 | rowspan="4" |Randall Roorda | rowspan="4" |2001 | rowspan="4" |University of Kentucky | - |III (4-6 January) |''Desert Crossings'' | rowspan="2" |Big Bend National Park |- | rowspan="2" |IV
(19-23 June) | rowspan="2" |- | rowspan="2" |''Making a Start Out of Particulars'' |- |Northern Arizona University |- | - |IV (24-27 October ) |''“Coming Nearer the Ground”: An ASLE Symposium on the South'' |University of Mississippi |- |9 |Terrell F. Dixon |2002 |University of Houston |<nowiki>-</nowiki> | | | |- |10 |Ian Marshall |2003 | |V
(3-7 June) |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |''The'' Solid ''Earth! The'' Actual ''World!: Sea–City–Pond–Garden'' |Boston University |- | rowspan="2" |11 | rowspan="2" |John Elder | rowspan="2" |2004 | rowspan="2" |Middlebury College | rowspan="2" |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |V
(4-6 June) |''Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest'' |The Highland Center, Crawford Notch, New Hampshire |- |VI (23-25 September ) |''Globalization and the Environmental Justice Movement'' |University of Arizona, Tucson |- |12 |Allison Wallace |2005 |Honors College, University of Central Arkansas |VI
(21-25 June) |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |''Being in the World, Living With the Land'' |University of Oregon |- |13 |Ann Fisher-Wirth |2006 |University of Mississippi |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |VII
(2-4 June ) |''Maine’s Place in the Environmental Imagination'' |University of Maine at Farmington |- |14 |Karla Armbruster |2007 |Webster University |VII
(12-16 June) |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |''Confluence: literature,art, criticism, science, activism, politics.'' |Wofford College |- |15 |Rochelle Johnson |2008 |College of Idaho |<nowiki>-</nowiki> | | | |- |16 |Daniel J. Philippon |2009 |University of Minnesota |VIII
(3-6 June) |<nowiki>- </nowiki> |''Island Time: The Fate of Place in a Wired, Warming World'' |University of Victoria |- |17 |Annie Ingram |2010 | | |VIII
(18-20 June) |The Third Annual Rural Heritage Institute: ''Is Local Enough? Promises and Limits of Local Action'' |Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, Vermont |- |18 |Ursula K. Heise |2011 |Stanford University |IX
(21-26 June) |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |''Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global'' |Indiana University, Bloomington |- |19 |Joni Adamson |2012 |Arizona State University |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |IX
(14-17 June) |''Environment, Culture & Place in a Rapidly Changing North'' |University of Alaska Southeast |- |20 |Paul Outka |2013 |University of Kansas |X
( 28 May – 1 June) |<nowiki>- </nowiki> |''Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits'' |University of Kansas |- |21 |Mark C. Long |2014 |Keene State College |<nowiki>- </nowiki> | | | |- |22 |Catriona Sandilands |2015 |York University |XI
(23-27 June) |<nowiki>-</nowiki> |''Notes From Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice'' |University of Idaho |- | rowspan="5" |23 | rowspan="3" |Christoph Irmscher | rowspan="5" |2016-17 | rowspan="3" |Indiana University, Bloomington<ref name=":0">{{cite web|title=Leadership & Staff|url=https://www.asle.org/discover-asle/leadership-staff/|publisher=ASLE|accessdate=May 10, 2018}}</ref> | rowspan="4" | |XI (7-9 June 2016) |''Sharp Eyes IX: Local, Regional, Global: The Many Faces of Nature Writing'' |State University of New York College at Oneonta |- |XII (8-11 June 2016) |''The Heart Of The Gila: Wilderness And Water In The West'' |Western New Mexico University |- | rowspan="2" |XIII (21-22 Oct 2016) | rowspan="2" |''Toxic Borders And Bondages: Intersecting Ecology With Capitalism, Racism, Heteropatriarchy And (Dis)Possession (Graduate Symposium)'' | rowspan="2" |University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |- | rowspan="2" |Anthony Lioi | rowspan="2" |Juilliard School<ref name=":0" /> |- |XII (20-24 June 2017) | |''Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery'' |Wayne State University |- | rowspan="4" |24 | rowspan="2" |Stacy Alaimo | rowspan="4" |Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 | rowspan="3" |University of Texas at Arlington <small>(2010-March 2019)<br/>University of Oregon (September 2019-)</small> | - |XIV (14-30 June 2018) |''A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia In The Anthropocene'' |A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium. Co-Sponsored with the University of California, Santa Barbara |- | rowspan="3" |XIII
(26-30 June 2019) | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |''Paradise on Fire'' | rowspan="3" |University of California, Davis<ref name="Conferences">{{cite web|title=Biennial Conference|url=https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/|date=2017|publisher=ASLE|accessdate=May 10, 2018}}</ref> |- | rowspan="2" |Jeffrey Cohen |- |Arizona State University |- | rowspan="2" |25 |Laura Barbas-Rhoden | rowspan="2" |2020-2021 |Wofford College | | | | |- |Bethany Wiggin |University of Pennsylvania | | | | |- | rowspan="2" |26 |Gisela Heffes | rowspan="2" |2022-23 | Rice University | | | | |- |George B. Handley |Brigham Young University |N/A |XIV
(6-9 July) | - |Oregon Convention Center |- | rowspan="2" |27 |Amy Hamilton | rowspan="2" |2024- |Northern Michigan University | | | | |- |Nicole Seymour |California State University, Fullerton | | | | |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.asle.org/ Association for the Study of Literature and Environment] * [https://www.asle.org/research-write/isle-journal/ ''Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment'']
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