Academics

Impacts of Environmental Fiction – Survey Results

Today, this site celebrates its 7th anniversary! I figured I’d give back to readers something I’ve been working on. But if not for you, these survey results wouldn’t be possible, so thank you! Last autumn I had a chance to speak at Ecocity Vancouver about healthy socio-cultural subjects regarding climate […]

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Climate Change Novel Survey from Yale

Note: This survey is no longer active. Thanks so much to Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale, for notifying me some time ago about a survey he has developed to find out who reads climate change fiction and to get some sense of what they take away […]

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Greening the Maple, Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley

See more at the University of Calgary Press. Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by […]

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June 23-27, 2015 – ASLE 11th Beinnial Conference

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Serpil Oppermann, EASLCE, European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment for the following news: November 15, 2014. Panel proposed for the ASLE Eleventh Biennial Conference, June 23-27, 2015, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID. “What Lies Beneath ‘Cli-Fi’ Narratives? Climate Science, Climate Justice, […]

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Climate Change Fiction: Radical Hope From an Emerging Genre

Copyright and written by Stephen Siperstein “Stories are much bigger than ideologies.  In that is our hope” – Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto Eugene, OR—In my backyard garden this morning the bees are hurrying through the last lavender blossoms of summer and the tomato plants are releasing their resinous […]

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Cli-fi: a Short Essay on its Worlds and its Importance

Copyright and written by Gregers Andersen, sent in 2014 to this site for publication after a personal discussion with its author. Because it has been plagiarized by the same individual twice now, I ask that you please respect the copyright and contact Gregers Andersen if you wish to reprint this […]

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