ASLE EcoCast Podcast

Special Episode: ASLE/AESS Conference Conversations

This month’s episode was recorded live throughout the ASLE/AESS Conference in July 2023 in Portland. Brandon had the opportunity to set up a table at the conference and the five wonderful people who you’re getting to listen to on this episode stopped by and shared their work with him (and now you!)

Guest List:

1. Rajendra Ponde, Man, Nature, and Wildlife Depicted in the Jungle Literature of Jim Corbett and Kenneth Anderson
2. Lori DiPrete Brown, Montañas and 3 or 4 Rios: Antología Bilingüe, ebook available at various retailers
3. Pam Uschuk, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, http://www.cutthroatmag.com/ 
4. Jessica Gigot, Her Deepest Ecologies podcast, herdeepestecologies.substack.com
5. Brandon McWilliams

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Episode recorded throughout the ASLE/AESS Conference in Portland, July 2023..

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“The Paradox of Place”: Appalachian Ecocriticism with Laura Wright and Jessica Cory

In this episode, Lindsay and Brandon are joined by Laura Wright and Jessica Cory to discuss their recent edited collection Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place. The episode kicks off with some gleeful sharing of a love for cryptids, but then gets into the heart of what it means to be from Appalachia, the common misconceptions of the area, and the important role those perceptions play in understanding the environmental issues facing the region.

For more on Laura and Jessica:

Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place: 

https://ugapress.org/book/9780820363950/appalachian-ecocriticism-and-the-paradox-of-place/

Laura: Instagram @pocoecofem; email lwright@wcu.edu

Jessica: Twitter @ecobooklover; jessicascory.com 

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Episode recorded May 15, 2023.

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Saving the Day, Saving the Oceans: A Conversation with Ryan Poll about Aquaman

EcoCast heads back to the ocean again as its theme, this month to discuss Ryan Poll’s recent book Aquaman and the War Against Oceans. He and Brandon examine the character’s evolution, the comics’ role in an oceanic imaginary, and how Aquaman comics can help bring attention to the issues facing the environment.

ASLE is also looking for new showrunners! If you’re interested in taking over as a co-host, editor, and/or producer, please send an email to ASLE.EcoCast@gmail.com with a short bio and explanation of any experience with podcasting, interviewing, or audio production.

For more on Ryan:

Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496225856/ 

Twitter: @RyanPoll2 

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Episode recorded March 20, 2023.

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What is Your Center?: Re-thinking Maps and Oceans with Christina Gerhardt

This month Lindsay and Brandon are joined by Christina Gerhardt, Associate Professor and Founder of the Environmental Humanities initiative at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and the Editor-in-Chief of ISLE. We discuss Christina’s recently released book (it comes out the same day as this episode!) Sea Change: Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean, which challenges us to re-consider the idea of mapping in a world increasingly affected by global warming.

For more on Christina:

Sea Change: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304826/sea-change 

Twitter: @TinaGerhardtEJ

Going to ASLE/AESS in July? Make sure to stop by Powell’s Books on Tuesday, July 11th at 7:00 p.m. for a talk and signing! 

Address: 

3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. 

Beaverton, OR 97005

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Episode recorded April 19, 2023.

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What Stage are We In?: A Conversation on Ecological Grief with Joshua Trey Barnett

This month Lindsay and Brandon are joined by Joshua Trey Barnett, assistant professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University, to discuss his recent book Mourning in the Anthropocene. We talk about extinction, what it means to grieve nature, and even get a little personal with the idea of naming and loss of pets.

Joshua’s Info:

Twitter: @joshuatbarnett

Email: barnett@psu.edu 

Mourning in the Anthropocene: Ecological Grief and Earthly Coexistence: https://msupress.org/9781609177041/mourning-in-the-anthropocene/ 

Joshua’s Book Recommendations:

Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shimmer.html

Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814214343.html 

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Episode recorded February 10, 2023.

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A Home on Their Back: A Conversation with Thom Van Dooren on Snails and Extinction

This month’s episode is no slog. It’s no slug, either. This month is all about the wonderful world of snails! Lindsay and Brandon are joined by Thom Van Dooren, Deputy Director at the Sydney Environment Institute and an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of Sydney, Australia. Thom joins EcoCast to discuss his most recent book, A World in a Shell: Snail Stories for a Time of Extinction. 

Thom’s Info:

https://www.thomvandooren.org/ 

A World in a Shell: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047029/  

Deborah Bird Rose:

Wild Dog Dreaming: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4294/ 

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Episode recorded October 26,  2022.

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Peace with Nature: Exploring the Korean DMZ with Eleana Kim

Eleana Kim, professor of anthropology and Asian American studies at UC Irvine, joins Lindsay and Brandon to discuss her work that examines the unique liminal space of the Korean DMZ, and the natural, militaristic, and hybrid ecosystems within it. Eleana argues that this particular space helps us better understand the impacts of war on the natural world, but that it also helps us better connect with the natural world and each other when we explore that space.

 

To contact Eleana:

 

https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/eleanakim/

 

The birds mentioned in End on a Roll:

 

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Western_Grebe/photo-gallery/455564

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbRrxw-H6xA

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Episode recorded October 17,  2022.

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Reading the Blue: Melody Jue and Oceans as Media

This month we dive deep (pun intended) into the work of Melody Jue, Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. Melody joins us to discuss her most recent book Wild Blue Media, and we get below the surface (pun intended) of how important oceans are, the human fascination with them, and how they serve as a space for orientation. The episode is a real splash (no pun intended)!

For more on Melody: 

http://www.melodyjue.info/ 

Wild Blue Media: https://www.dukeupress.edu/wild-blue-media 

ASLE EcoCast:

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• Brandon Galm: @BeGalm

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Episode recorded September 12, 2022.

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Why Did the Podcast Cross the Road?: Eco-comedy with Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann

The laughs are aplenty in this episode, which highlights the recent book by Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann: Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-comedies on the Big Screen. Both Robin and Joseph are Professor Emeritus at Eastern Illinois University, in English and in Communications, respectively. In between the ha-has, we discuss what makes a comedy an eco-comedy, why laughter is important, and how comedy and activism might connect.

For more on Robin and Joseph: 

Film, Environment, Comedy: Eco-comedies on the Big Screen: https://www.routledge.com/Film-Environment-Comedy-Eco-Comedies-on-the-Big-Screen/Murray-Heumann/p/book/9781032250410 

Robin and Joe’s “Ecocinema and Media” website:

https://rlmurray50.wixsite.com/ecocinema-and-media

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Episode recorded September 11, 2022.

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Oh, Snap: The Anti-Creep Climate Initiative’s Webzine Fighting Ecofascism

It’s a full house this month! Lindsay and Brandon are joined by the six-member superhero team that makes up the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative to discuss their webzine, “Against the Ecofascist Creep” The Initiative is made up of the following: 

• April Anson, Assistant Professor of Public Humanities at San Diego State University, core faculty for the Institute for Ethics and Public Policy, and affiliate faculty in American Indian Studies.
• Cassie Galentine, doctoral candidate in English at the University of Oregon. 
• Shane Hall, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Salisbury University. 
• Alex Menrisky, Assistant Professor in English and affiliate faculty in American Studies at the University of Connecticut, and the author of Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology. 
• Bruno Seraphin, doctoral candidate in sociocultural Anthropology with a graduate minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Cornell University.

For more on the Anti-Creep Climate Initiative and the webzine: 

Webzine: https://www.asle.org/features/stemming-the-creep-of-ecofascism-a-primer/ 

ACCI Email: ThanosWasAnEcofascist@gmail.com 

April: @AprilAnson 

Cassie: @CassieGalentine 

Alex: @AlexMenrisky and https://www.alexmenrisky.com/; Alex also appeared on the April 2021 episode of EcoCast

Bruno: @BrunoMarzipan 

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Episode recorded August 18, 2022.

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