Writing Communities for Environmental Justice (ASLE session) (NeMLA 2027)
Event: NeMLA 2027
Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)
This roundtable envisions writing as a collaborative act and centers writings that empower Environmental Justice communities. How have/do writing communities negotiate and enact environmental justice? How do writing communities disseminate scientific and technical information towards environmental action and justice? Participants in this roundtable are encouraged to consider:
o How does/can writing raise collective environmental consciousness?
o Writing in the Humanities to mobilize marginalized communities in the age of climate change
o Aesthetic writings beyond the pleasure of nature writing but those that fuel ethical actions
o Place-based writing that also takes into account displacement, deracination, and forced climate migration
o Writing that argues for multispecies kinship and justice
o Writing that transcends linguistic structures and includes other material realities
o Transdisciplinary rhetorical writing that transforms/translates scientific communication and empowers citizens
o Writing as a way to organize collective environmental action in the face of systemic injustice.
Format: roundtable (5-10 participants)
Please submit a 200-300-word abstract ONLY via the NeMLA portal by 9/30/2026.
Email: Dr. Gayathri Goel goelg@bc.edu
Gayathri Goel