The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (UK):
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
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 (UK) 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 Hugh Dunkerley, University of Chichester
Hugh is a Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. Publications include two poetry pamphlets, 'Walking to the Fire Tower' (Redbeck Press) and 'Fast' (Pighhog Press). He has also published articles on ecocriticism and is particularly interested in contemporary poetry and the environment. In 2004 he hosted the biennial ASLE-UK conference at Chichester.
Membership Secretary: Dr John Parham, Thames Valley University
John Parham is a member of the editorial board of Green Letters and a Senior Lecturer in Media Theory at Thames Valley University in London. He edited the collection The Environmental Tradition in English Literature (Ashgate 2002) and is currently writing an ecocritical study of Gerard Manley Hopkins. He has also written and published pieces on John Stuart Mill, E.P. Thompson and environmental pedagogy.
Treasurer: Dr Simon Meacher, University of Newcastle
Simon's interest in environmental literature and politics dates back to his undergraduate studies at Swansea University where he took a module on Green Thought in German Culture. He subsequently studied for a PhD at Exeter University, completing a thesis on 'The Aestheticization of Green Ideas in German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s', and worked at Newcastle University as a Research Associate on a major AHRC-funded project. He is now working in university admin but is still as interested as ever in environmental politics and nature writing (particularly Richard Jefferies and W.H. Hudson).
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: Greg Garrard. Berlin Zoo lion: Verity Teagle. Sycamore tree, Waves, London traffic, Thames Barrier, Computer keyboard, Lambrigg wind farm: Ian Britton (freefoto.com)
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