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Environment and Culture Caucus

Liaison: Charlie Mitchell, cmitchell@elmira.edu

The Environment and Culture Caucus works within the American Studies Association to promote further work on the environment, broadly understood, within the association. We sponsor a panel each year at the ASA national meeting, work to organize numerous other panels on environmental issues at the conference, and engage in a variety of other efforts to raise the profile of environmental work within and around the ASA and American Studies as a field. We are interested in furthering more work that reflects historical and cultural analysis of environmental issues and concerns, and hope to demonstrate the relevance of environmental scholarship to the central issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and colonialism at the heart of much work in American culture studies.

The ECC sponsors the ANNETTE KOLODNY PRIZE for the best paper on an environment and culture theme at the ASA conference. The prize includes a cash award and is generously supported by Orion and Duke University Press. For information on the “Annette Kolodny Prize,” please contact Charlie Mitchell at cmitchell@elmira.edu

The next ASA meeting will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, October 20-23, 2011. The theme is “Imagination, Reparation, Transformation.”

The Annual Business Meeting of the ECC will take place on Saturday, October 22 from 4:00-5:30 in the Marshall Board Room. At that time we will award the Annette Kolodny prize to Stephanie LeMenager for her paper “Aesthetics of Petroleum II: Petro-Melancholia and Gulf Coast Subsidence.” The Prize Committee had this to say about the paper:

“Examining the BP blowout as a collapse of the modernist aesthetic, LeMenager carefully traces how it signals the re-mapping of the U.S.South as the global South, setting ‘the punk promise of posthumanism’ and eco-activism against the ‘slow violence’ of neoliberalism. The essay epitomizes the best work in recent ecocriticism in its ambitious
synthesis of theory from a number of disciplines, concern for social justice, and lucid prose.”

The ECC is fortunate enough to have two officially sponsored sessions at the 2011 meeting. The first, “Imagining (and Transforming) the Future of Environmental Studies: A Roundtable” is scheduled for Friday, October 21 from 10:00-11:45 in Key Ballroom 08. The second, “Fantasy, Reparation, and Ideology in the Environmental Imagination” will take place on Saturday, October 22 from 2:00-3:45 in the Armistead room.

Please join us for these sessions.

Web Site: http://www.wsu.edu/~amerstu/enstudcaucus.html

To join the Environment and Culture Caucus list-serv, contact Joni Adamson at Joni.Adamson@asu.edu