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EcoCast: Environmental Conversations On Creative Art, Scholarship, and Teaching. The official podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). Each episode features interviews with guests sharing their scholarship, creative work, or teaching.
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Friday Apr 02, 2021
Friday Apr 02, 2021
You can submit an Eco Quick Fiction here by May 15 2021: https://forms.gle/nG7WwTSzJHP86tZw7 (or find the link pinned on our twitter).
In this month’s episode, Jemma and Brandon sit down with Alex Menrisky, lecturer in English and Communication at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, to discuss his recent book Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology. What follows is a fascinating conversation on the historical ties of environmentalism to psychoanalysis and counterculture movements.
We apologize for the audio/technical issues in this month’s episode. We did our best to clean them up, but there are a few moments where you might hear some slight crackles, pops, or echoes. Those shouldn’t distract you from what is still a wonderful episode!
Wild Abandon: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/wild-abandon/06DCF0BB6EDF98C26FDF76BE9DF0C1F5
Use Discount Code WIAB2020 for 20% off at Cambridge U Press (Good while code is active)
Twitter: @alexmenrisky
Website: alexmenrisky.com
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
Jemma: @Geowrites
Brandon: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded February 20, 2021.
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
This episode, Jemma and Brandon are joined by Craig Santos Perez, poet and English professor at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa. They discuss Craig’s newest book, Habitat Threshold, and the ways his poetry addresses ecological concerns and their impacts on Pacific Island people and communities.
Habitat Threshold: https://www.omnidawn.com/product/habitat-threshold-craig-santos-perez/
For more on Craig and his work:
Website: http://craigsantosperez.com/
Twitter: @craigsperez
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
Jemma: @Geowrites
Brandon: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded September 26, 2020.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
With the start of a new semester for most of us, it felt like the perfect time to release a great conversation on climate change pedagogy (this episode’s Root Word!) with Sarah Jaquette Ray and Stephen Siperstein. Sarah is professor and head of the Environmental Studies BA program at Humboldt State University, and Stephen lives at the Environmental Immersion Program at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut where he teaches courses in environmental humanities and interdisciplinary environmental research methods, and directs the school’s Writing Center.
UC-CSU NXTerra: https://www.nxterra.orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/
Find Sarah on Twitter @sjaquetteray or her website: www.sarahjaquetteray.com
Find Stephen on Twitter @ssiperstein or email: ssiperstein@choate.edu
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
Jemma: @Geowrites
Brandon: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded November 21, 2020.
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
ASLE EcoCast kicks off the new year with an episode talking with Kristin J. Jacobson, Professor of American Literature at Stockton University to discuss her recent book The American Adrenaline Narrative. Jemma gets the adventure rolling with the Root Words on, well, adventure, and what follows is a thrilling conversation on the connections between these narratives, environmental consciousness, and toxic masculinity.
You can follow Kristin on Twitter: @drkj
The American Adrenaline Narrative is available through the University of Georgia Press: https://ugapress.org/book/9780820357188/the-american-adrenaline-narrative/
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
Jemma: @Geowrites
Brandon: @BeGalm
If you’re enjoying the show, please consider subscribing, sharing, and writing reviews on your favorite podcast platform(s)!
Episode recorded November 21, 2020.
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
Wednesday Dec 02, 2020
In this month’s episode, Jemma and Brandon talk with Jason-Allen Paisant, poet and Director of the Institute for Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies at the University of Leeds, and use the connection between writing and trees to discuss his poetry that engages with environmental concerns, time, and black identity.
His first full length book of poems, Thinking with Trees, will be released June 2021.
Find Jason on Twitter: @jallenpaisant
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Or you can find us on Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast or @BeGalm (Brandon) and @geowrites (Jemma).
Episode recorded August 14, 2020.
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
Sunday Nov 01, 2020
In this month’s episode, Jemma and Brandon sit down with Thomas Rashad Easley, Hip Hop artist and Assistant Dean of Community and Inclusion at the Yale School of the Environment. He uses what he calls “Hip Hop Forestry” as a means to creatively address issues of environmental justice and inclusion—both within and outside of academia.
For more about Thomas:
Website: rashadeasley.com
Twitter/Instagram: @RashadEas
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Or you can find us on Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast or @BeGalm (Brandon) and @geowrites (Jemma).
Episode recorded July 17, 2020.
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
This month Jemma and Brandon sit down (virtually, of course) with scholar, fiction writer, and poet Cheryl J. Fish to discuss her most recent book of poetry, Crater & Tower. This collection explores questions of trauma, memory, and environmental justice by considering the 1980 Mt. St. Helen’s eruption in conjunction with September 11, 2001.
Cheryl’s Website: https://www.cheryljfish.com
Twitter: @CherylJoyFish
Crater & Tower is available through various booksellers online.
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA or reach out to us on Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast.
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
This month Jemma and Brandon have a wonderful conversation with Una Chaudhuri, Collegiate Professor and Professor of English, Drama, and Environmental Studies at New York University, and the Director of NYU’s XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement. They discuss Una’s work in the early development of eco-theatre as a field of study, the ways that theatre is uniquely suited to engage with environmental concerns, and her ongoing Dear Climate project.
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
You can also find us on Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
More information about Dear Climate can be found here: http://dearclimate.net/.
You can find Jemma and Brandon on twitter: @geowrites and @begalm
Saturday Aug 01, 2020
Saturday Aug 01, 2020
In this episode, Jemma and Brandon have a conversation with Bénédicte Boisseron, Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies at University of Michigan, and author of Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question. Building off the Root Word “matter,” they discuss Bénédicte’s scholarship—situated at the intersection of animal studies and racial justice—and the implications for our present moment.
Afro-Dog available here: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/afro-dog/9780231186650
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
In the pilot episode, co-hosts Jemma and Brandon introduce themselves, the podcast, and have a discussion about what's happening in the world during Summer 2020 and how this podcast hopes to serve as a medium for all voices to be heard and shared.
If you have an idea for an episode, please submit your proposal here: https://forms.gle/Y1S1eP9yXxcNkgWHA
Find us on Twitter: @ASLE_EcoCast.