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Environment and Culture Caucus

Liaison: Joni Adamson,

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 Joni Adamson at Joni.Adamson@asu.edu

The next ASA meeting will be held in San Antonio, Texas, November 18-21, 2010. The theme will be “Crisis, Chains, and Change: American Studies for the 21st Century.” The CFP and information about proposing papers and panels can be found using the links to the right.

For the 2010 meeting, we invite all ECC members to use the listserv to participate in further discussion of topics and/or to suggest ideas for panels. Please post CFPs to the listserv. Getting on the ASA’s program is a rigorous process, with guidelines that are strictly followed. Thus, (as many of us know all too well) rejection of proposals is often because some guideline was not followed.

The ECC is allowed to sponsor only one panel per year. So, we ask our members to let us know if their panel was accepted by the ASA when notification is sent out in March or April. If your panel is accepted by the ASA for presentation at the annual meeting, then the ECC will consider it, among all the other panels accepted, for sponsorship. We usually put our sponsorship to a vote on the list-serv. We pick the one panel that we would like to officially sponsor.

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