Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
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The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) is the principal professional association for American and international scholars of ecocriticism
. 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 and publishes an official journal—Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)—in which the most current scholarship in the rapidly evolving field of ecocriticism can often be found. ASLE now has branches or related organisations in the UK, Japan, India, Canada and continental Europe. ASLE-UK publishes the journal 'Green Letters'.
The current president of ASLE is Ursula K. Heise of Stanford University. The next conference will be held May 28 - June 1, 2013, at University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
In India, ASLE's affiliate, OSLE-India, plays a vital role in popularizing Ecocriticism. Every year it conducts an International Conference in India.The current president of OSLE-India is Nirmal Selvamony of Central University of Tamil Nadu and the Vice President is Suresh Frederick of Bishop Heber College, India.
OSLE-India
Organisation for Studies in Literature and Environment-India (OSLE-India) is a forum for promoting ecocriticism, especially in India and also in other Asian countries. Today \'ecocriticism\' has come to mean not only \'the application of ecology and ecological principles to the study of literature,\' but also the theoretical approach to the interrelational web of natural, cultural and supernatural phenomena.
OSLE-India owes its origin to a postgraduate ecocritical course (now called, \'ecoliterature\'), which the Department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai, has been offering for the past twenty years. With a view to strengthening this course, the department conducted an international conference on ecocriticism in collaboration with the Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literature (IASCL), and the World Association for Studies in Literatures in English (WASLE) on the 20 th and 21st of December, 2004, in Chennai. This conference clearly showed the growing interest and involvement in ecocriticism in the Indian academy. In order to bring these scholars together, an informal forum called ASLE India was formed in January 2005, and it has been meeting in Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Madurai, and Tiruchirappalli) for the past two years. So far this forum has brought out Newsletters and motivated some academic institutions in Tamil Nadu to introduce courses in ecocriticism. On the 27 th of May, 2006, ASLE India became a registered body and entered a new phase of life. Renamed OSLE-India, it continues to be the parent ecocriticism forum in India.
Ecocriticism
Ecocriticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view where all sciences come together to analyze the environment and brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation...
. It was founded in 1992 at a special session of the Western Literature Association
Western Literature Association
Founded in 1965, the Western Literature Association is a non-profit, scholarly association that promotes the study of the diverse literature and cultures of the North American West, past and present...
conference in Reno, Nevada
Reno, Nevada
Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area...
for the purpose of "sharing of facts, ideas, and texts concerning the study of literature and the environment."
The association hosts a biennial conference and publishes an official journal—Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)—in which the most current scholarship in the rapidly evolving field of ecocriticism can often be found. ASLE now has branches or related organisations in the UK, Japan, India, Canada and continental Europe. ASLE-UK publishes the journal 'Green Letters'.
The current president of ASLE is Ursula K. Heise of Stanford University. The next conference will be held May 28 - June 1, 2013, at University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
In India, ASLE's affiliate, OSLE-India, plays a vital role in popularizing Ecocriticism. Every year it conducts an International Conference in India.The current president of OSLE-India is Nirmal Selvamony of Central University of Tamil Nadu and the Vice President is Suresh Frederick of Bishop Heber College, India.
OSLE-India
Organisation for Studies in Literature and Environment-India (OSLE-India) is a forum for promoting ecocriticism, especially in India and also in other Asian countries. Today \'ecocriticism\' has come to mean not only \'the application of ecology and ecological principles to the study of literature,\' but also the theoretical approach to the interrelational web of natural, cultural and supernatural phenomena.
OSLE-India owes its origin to a postgraduate ecocritical course (now called, \'ecoliterature\'), which the Department of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai, has been offering for the past twenty years. With a view to strengthening this course, the department conducted an international conference on ecocriticism in collaboration with the Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literature (IASCL), and the World Association for Studies in Literatures in English (WASLE) on the 20 th and 21st of December, 2004, in Chennai. This conference clearly showed the growing interest and involvement in ecocriticism in the Indian academy. In order to bring these scholars together, an informal forum called ASLE India was formed in January 2005, and it has been meeting in Tamil Nadu (Chennai, Madurai, and Tiruchirappalli) for the past two years. So far this forum has brought out Newsletters and motivated some academic institutions in Tamil Nadu to introduce courses in ecocriticism. On the 27 th of May, 2006, ASLE India became a registered body and entered a new phase of life. Renamed OSLE-India, it continues to be the parent ecocriticism forum in India.