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The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) has named for November, 2021.

Christy Tidwell An excerpt is below.

Long before I would submit , I was keenly aware of the greenwashing of environmental violence. The geography of my childhood (Lower Manhattan, Staten Island, and ultimately New Jersey) figured the stark antithesis of the pastoral idylls so celebrated in my high school English classes – effectively offering an imaginative salve for the industrial corridors of the Garden State. To offer one example: New Jersey’s lower Passaic River, brimming with the residue of Agent Orange (manufactured by Diamond Alkali), flanks the working-class city of Newark that is now home to some six acres of dioxin-contaminated soil; and yet, discussions around such egregious forms of corporate malfeasance and environmental violence were entirely disconnected from the formal study of landscape and “nature” to which I was accustomed in the early 1990s. Interested in the uneven geographies of environmental toxicity, I studied Environmental Conservation (and also English) in college and eventually pursued my PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, where my coursework and research were situated at the intersection between Postcolonial and Environmental Studies.

Balkan's edited collection, (Penn State University Press) is available for pre-order, and her monograph, (West Virginia University Press) is available now.

pictured: Stacey Balkan and her Research Assistant, Asbury