# Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

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."
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.

## 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.
| # | President | Year(s) | Affiliation | Biennial Conference (Dates) | Symposium (Dates) | Theme | Venue |
| 1 | Scott Slovic | 1992-93 | | | | | |
| (1) 2 | Scott Slovic | 1993-94 | University of Tokyo | | | | |
| (1) 2 | Cheryll Glotfelty | 1993-94 | University of Nevada, Reno | | | | |
| (1) | Scott Slovic | 1994-95 | University of Nevada, Reno | I (9-11 June 1995) | - | | Colorado State University |
| 3 | Michael P. Branch | 1995-96 | University of Nevada, Reno | | 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) | - | The Last Best Place | University of Montana |
| 5 | Louise Westling | 1998 | University of Oregon | - | - | - | - |
| 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 | - | II (15-17 June) | Food and Farming in American Life and Letters | Unity College (Maine) |
| 8 | Randall Roorda | 2001 | University of Kentucky | - | III (4-6 January) | Desert Crossings | Big Bend National Park |
| 8 | Randall Roorda | 2001 | University of Kentucky | IV (19-23 June) | - | Making a Start Out of Particulars | Big Bend National Park |
| 8 | Randall Roorda | 2001 | University of Kentucky | IV (19-23 June) | - | Making a Start Out of Particulars | Northern Arizona University |
| 8 | Randall Roorda | 2001 | University of Kentucky | - | 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 | - | | | |
| 10 | Ian Marshall | 2003 | | V (3-7 June) | - | The Solid Earth! The Actual World!: Sea–City–Pond–Garden | Boston University |
| 11 | John Elder | 2004 | Middlebury College | - | V (4-6 June) | Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest | The Highland Center, Crawford Notch, New Hampshire |
| 11 | John Elder | 2004 | Middlebury College | - | 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) | - | Being in the World, Living With the Land | University of Oregon |
| 13 | Ann Fisher-Wirth | 2006 | University of Mississippi | - | 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) | - | Confluence: literature,art, criticism, science, activism, politics. | Wofford College |
| 15 | Rochelle Johnson | 2008 | College of Idaho | - | | | |
| 16 | Daniel J. Philippon | 2009 | University of Minnesota | VIII (3-6 June) | - | 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 Heise | 2011 | Stanford University | IX (21-26 June) | - | Species, Space and the Imagination of the Global | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 19 | Joni Adamson | 2012 | Arizona State University | - | 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) | - | Changing Nature: Migrations, Energies, Limits | University of Kansas |
| 21 | Mark C. Long | 2014 | Keene State College | - | | | |
| 22 | Catriona Sandilands | 2015 | York University | XI (23-27 June) | - | Notes From Underground: The Depths of Environmental Arts, Culture and Justice | University of Idaho |
| 23 | Christoph Irmscher | 2016-17 | Indiana University, Bloomington | | 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 |
| 23 | Christoph Irmscher | 2016-17 | Indiana University, Bloomington | | XII (8-11 June 2016) | The Heart Of The Gila: Wilderness And Water In The West | Western New Mexico University |
| 23 | Christoph Irmscher | 2016-17 | Indiana University, Bloomington | | XIII (21-22 Oct 2016) | Toxic Borders And Bondages: Intersecting Ecology With Capitalism, Racism, Heteropatriarchy And (Dis)Possession (Graduate Symposium) | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 23 | Anthony Lioi | 2016-17 | Juilliard School | | XIII (21-22 Oct 2016) | Toxic Borders And Bondages: Intersecting Ecology With Capitalism, Racism, Heteropatriarchy And (Dis)Possession (Graduate Symposium) | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 23 | Anthony Lioi | 2016-17 | Juilliard School | XII (20-24 June 2017) | | Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery | Wayne State University |
| 24 | Stacy Alaimo | Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 | University of Texas at Arlington (2010-March 2019) University of Oregon (September 2019-) | - | 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 |
| 24 | Stacy Alaimo | Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 | University of Texas at Arlington (2010-March 2019) University of Oregon (September 2019-) | XIII (26-30 June 2019) | | Paradise on Fire | University of California, Davis |
| 24 | Jeffrey Cohen | Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 | University of Texas at Arlington (2010-March 2019) University of Oregon (September 2019-) | XIII (26-30 June 2019) | | Paradise on Fire | University of California, Davis |
| 24 | Jeffrey Cohen | Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 | Arizona State University | XIII (26-30 June 2019) | | Paradise on Fire | University of California, Davis |
| 25 | Laura Barbas-Rhoden | 2020-2021 | Wofford College | | | | |
| 25 | Bethany Wiggin | 2020-2021 | University of Pennsylvania | | | | |
| 26 | Gisela Heffes | 2022-23 | Rice University | | | | |
| 26 | George B. Handley | 2022-23 | Brigham Young University | N/A | XIV (6-9 July) | - | Oregon Convention Center |
| 27 | Amy Hamilton | 2024- | Northern Michigan University | | | | |
| 27 | Nicole Seymour | 2024- | California State University, Fullerton | | | | |