The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UKI):
Supports, sustains and disseminates study of the cultures of nature
Promotes education for sustainable development in English, Cultural Studies, Creative Writing and related disciplines
Enables sharing of curricula, course designs and assessment ideas
Builds links to environmental history, cultural geography and science studies
Facilitates discussion amongst the various shades of green in the Humanities
Publishes the journal Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism
Organises conferences and symposia, bringing together ecocritics from ASLE in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Korea, as well as colleagues from the European Association for the Study of Culture, Literature and the Environment
ASLE (UKI) is an affiliate organisation of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment in the United States.
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Advisory Board
Professor Karla Armbruster, Webster University
Professor Jonathan Bate, Warwick University
Professor Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
Professor Ursula Heise, Stanford University
Dr Terry Gifford, University of Chichester
Dr David Ingram, Brunel University
Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University
Professor Kate Rigby, Monash University
Professor Kate Soper, Institute for the Study of European Transformations
Professor Louise Westling, University of Oregon
Dr Wendy Wheeler, London Metropolitan University
Officers
Chair: Dr Greg Garrard, Senior Teaching Fellow, Bath Spa University
Greg is the author of Ecocriticism (Routledge 2004) as well as articles on Romantic ecology, 20th century literature and the politics of environmentalism. In 2006 he was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy for his work on Education for Sustainable Development.
Deputy Chair: Dr Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Exeter
Adeline Johns-Putra is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter. She is based at the Cornwall Campus, where, as head of English from 2005 to 2010, she oversaw the introduction of a core undergraduate module on literature and the environment, and Masters programmes on literature and place. A Romanticist with an interest in epic, she is the author of Heroes and Housewives: Women's Epic Poetry and Domestic Ideology in the Romantic Age (Peter Lang 2001) and The History of the Epic (Palgrave 2006). She is now part of a major European Social Fund project, which involves ecologists, geographers and literary scholars in comparative analyses of scientific, social and cultural imaginings of climate change. As part of this project, she is co-writing a monograph, with Adam Trexler, on contemporary literary representations of climate change.
Membership Secretary: Dr John Parham, University of Worcester
John Parham is the editor of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester. He is the author of Green Man Hopkins: Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination (Rodopi 2010) and editor of The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (Ashgate 2002). He has also written and published pieces on John Stuart Mill, E.P. Thompson and environmental pedagogy.
Treasurer: Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University
Postgraduate Officers: Emma Seymour, Glasgow University and Sue Edney, Bath Spa University
Website designer: Greg Garrard
Photo credits: Stockholm tiger, Exmoor oak wood, Hong Kong aircon, Full Moon maple, Taipei construction site, Hemp agrimony, Bristol graffiti, Dorset sheep, Girders, Guelder rose, Japanese larch, Koln pigeons, Paignton Zoo ostrich, German log pile, Supermarket ducks, Kowloon, Redwood stump, Hong Kong Central, Slimbridge flamingo feathers, Wires, The Lighthouse Glasgow, Quebec lichen, BMW Brussels, Hong Kong shrine, Natur und Fun, Sunnies, Small car - Canada, Moss, Infinite Regress, Mussels, Boots: Greg Garrard. Berlin Zoo lion: Verity Teagle. Sycamore tree, Waves: Ian Britton (freefoto.com)
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