2026 20th Anniversary Conference: Cross-Pollinations

16-20 June, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

The University of Alberta is situated on Treaty 6 Territory and Districts 9 & 10 of the Métis Nation of Alberta. These lands have long been an important gathering place for Indigenous nations, including the Nehiyawak, Niitsitapi, Nakota Sioux, Dene, Anishinaabeg, and Inuit, along with the more-than-human kin who influence our ecological communities and relationships.

In the spirit of gathering and visiting in this beautiful, historied pêhonân in the Aspen Parkland ecoregion, Cross-Pollinations invites you to join the shared celebration of the 20th anniversaries of the Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) and the Association of Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC). Over the past two decades, these two parallel organizations have mobilized distinct Canadian scholarly and artistic communities.

Meeting around the theme of cross-pollination, this conference will bring these communities together to explore shared questions about cross-pollination as

1. an ecological process as represented in the literary and visual arts;
2. an artistic practice that innovates new literary and artistic forms and affects; and
3. a cross-/interdisciplinary scholarly practice that generates new methods and approaches to literary studies and arts-based research and teaching.

This conference will provide an open, collegial space for emerging and established scholars and creative artists from across Canada and beyond to cross-pollinate in other ways, too. At a moment when climate change and ecological crises are being sidelined, even as they are ever-more visible and urgent, this gathering provides room, both at the University of Alberta and in places of ecological significance in and around the Edmonton region, to share research and collaborate across institutions, vocations, and disciplines on matters of profound environmental importance.

Call for Proposals

We invite proposals for scholarly, creative-critical, and creative presentations or panels that examine or employ “cross-pollination,” which might be considered in any of the following ways:

• Methodological: e.g., science and humanities; research-creation; interdisciplinary cross-pollinations; collaboration in research and art;
• Collaborative: pre-formed panels that bring together diverse approaches to a shared ecological subject (e.g., water, bison, seeds, insects, climate change) or pedagogical, artistic, or scholarly practice;
• Thematic: e.g., presentations of literary or scholarly work that depicts agents or processes of cross-pollination in provocative ways;
• Intercultural: e.g., braided approaches to Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledges; Canada-Quebec dialogue; anglophone and francophone perspectives; bi- or multilingual texts; and
• “Cross-polli-nation”: e.g., explorations of the value and the limits of this ecological metaphor for thinking about Canada as a nation of nations, and/or about relationships between the local and the global.

We are especially interested in proposals that feature a part of what is now Canada and/or its diverse literatures and cultures, and panels of shorter presentations (8-15 minutes) that can accommodate more voices and conversation.

Submission Information

Deadline for all proposals: December 1, 2025

Please submit by email: crosspollinations2026@gmail.com

To propose an individual paper, creative or other work, including a reading (15 minutes maximum):

• Please submit an anonymous proposal that includes a title and a 200- to 250- word abstract, noting whether it is a creative or an academic presentation.
• In a separate document (but the same email submission), please send your name, proposal title, preference for a scholarly, creative, or mixed session, any requests for audio-visual equipment, current contact information, and a one-page curriculum vitae.

To propose a pre-formed panel (we suggest three to five presenters for a 60- or 90- minute session, or more if you are envisioning something more interactive or pecha kucha style):

• Please submit an anonymous proposal that includes: a session title; a 100- to 200-word session abstract, including whether it is a creative, academic, or mixed panel; and a 200- to 250-word anonymous abstract for each presentation.
• In a separate file, please send the session title, any requests for audio-visual equipment, and the name, contact information, and a one-page curriculum vitae for each presenter and the session organizer.
• Indicate if one of your panel members will serve as Chair for your panel and provide their name.

To propose an alternative format or presentation (e.g., workshops, roundtables, exhibits, performances, book launches, lightning talks):

• Please send a 200- to 250-word proposal in an email to the organizing committee in advance of the deadline to discuss further proposal submission requirements.

Practical Details

• We welcome submissions in English, French, or Indigenous languages, as well as bilingual panels.
• All proposals should indicate clearly the nature of the session and all requests for audio-visual equipment and any other specific needs (e.g., space, moveable chairs, outdoor location, etc.).
• We ask that panel organizers attempt to include a diversity of participants.
• Email submissions should include in the subject line the word SUBMISSION, the abstract type (panel, paper, other), and your (or the panel proposer’s) name. For example: SUBMISSION paper Julia Devi or SUBMISSION panel Bo Kwon. We will acknowledge all submissions.

Additional Information

• Centre for Literatures in Canada website: uab.ca/clc
• Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada website: alecc.ca
• General queries for the organizing committee: crosspollinations2026@gmail.com
• ALECC / CLC 2025 Organizing Committee:

Sarah Krotz, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Jordan Kinder, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

Lisa Szabo-Jones, John Abbott College, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC

Kit Dobson, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB

Ariel Gordon, Winnipeg, MB

Nicole Brandsma, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Dear ALECC Members,
it is with great delight that we announce the 2024 Alanna Bondar Literary Prize winner, Heather Davis for her book Plastic Matter (Duke UP, 2022). Here is a link to the publisher’s website: https://www.dukeupress.edu/plastic-matter

We would like to express our deep gratitude to the judges for this year’s prize, their generosity in sharing their time, love of reading and writing, and critical appreciation of creative and scholarly works engaging with environmental issues. The judges this year were Finis Dunaway (Chair) and 2022 Alanna Bondar Prize winner, Sonnet L’Abbe, and Paul Huebener. Sonnet was present at ALECC’s 2024 Biennial conference in Waterloo, Ontario to share their announcement to attendees. Claps and hoots followed.

The judges observe, Plastic Matter asks, how can we envision good relations with the non-human when there is no future unsaturated by plastic? Ina work of exquisite prose and sparkling theorizing, Heather Davis argues that the expectations plastic fulfills – of pliability, consumability, and disposability – have shaped Western modernity’s relation to matter itself. Following fascinating analyses of the geological relations of plastiglomerate, and of photography that maps how petrochemicals disrupt time and bodies, Davis proposes that we consider plastic-eating bacteria a new kind of human progeny, a queer kin from whom we can learn new forms of responsibility.

Heather Davis is an assistant professor of Culture and Media at Eugene Lang College, The New School in New York. As an interdisciplinary scholar working in environmental humanities, visual culture, and queer theory she is interested in how the saturation of fossil fuels has shaped contemporary culture. Her most recent book, Plastic Matter (Duke University Press, 2022) explores the transformation of geology, media, and bodies in light of plastic’s ubiquity. She is the editor of the award-winning Desire Change: Contemporary Feminist Art in Canada (MAWA and McGill Queen’s UP, 2017) and co-editor of Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (Open Humanities Press, 2015). Davis is a member of the Synthetic Collective, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, humanities scholars, and artists, who investigate and make visible plastic pollution in the Great Lakes.
Congratulations, Heather, on the success of your book’s launch and winning the Bondar Prize! Great news!

Folks, please send your congratulations also to four amazing Honourable Mentions for this year’s prize. The selection of submitted books made for a competitive year. The Honourable Mentions are as follows:

Aaron Kreuter, Shifting Baseline Syndrome (University of Regina Press, 2022)

Aaron Kreuter’s collection Shifting Baseline Syndrome starts out with a glib tone that belies a genuine grief propelling the poems. Merciless in its skewering of a society that processes nearly all experience through the lens of consumerism, this book casts flora, fauna, and oceans as the straight guys to human bumbling imbecility, then draws us into tender personal mourning for a Jewish grandma whose radical activist sensibilities the poet may or may not have inherited. A poem imagining the possibility of “hik[ing] the land together” with a Palestinian cousin is a particularly timely read. By the book’s end, we hear Kreuter’s satiric wit as a poignant coping strategy honoring the fervent lovers of life and land who have come before.

https://uofrpress.ca/Books/S/Shifting-Baseline-Syndrome

Aaron Kreuter‘s most recent poetry collection, Shifting Baseline Syndrome, was a finalist for the 2022 Governor General’s Award, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Raymond Souster Award and the 2023 Vine Awards for Jewish Literature. His other books include the poetry collection Arguments for Lawn Chairs, the short story collection You and Me, Belonging, and, from spring 2023, the academic monograph Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction. A new short story collection, Rubble Children, came out in summer 2024 with University of Alberta Press. A novel, Lake Burntshore, is forthcoming from ECW Press in April 2025. Aaron is an assistant professor in English Literature at Trent University. Find Aaron on X @aaronkreuter; on Instagram @aaronkreuter8.

Tanis MacDonald, Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female (Wolsak and Wynn, 2022)

Tanis MacDonald’s Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female shows how the everyday act of walking is tied to the politics of gender and to the claims that people lay to the land each time they set foot in it. Rather than portraying walking as a matter of inspirational wilderness hikes, Straggle uncovers how walking can illuminate what it means to live with trauma, chronic pain, and settler-colonialism. Whether she is screaming in an empty field during a Covid lockdown or walking cautiously through a place where a sexual assault has occurred (that is to say, anywhere), MacDonald reveals the implications of walking in full force. A work of political weight and arresting images, Straggle will change what it means for you to step outside. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/straggle-adventures-in-walking-while-female

Tanis MacDonald (she/her) is the author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female and six other books. Straggle was awarded an Honourable Mention for the Betsy Warland Between Genres Prize. Tanis has won the Open Seasons Award for Nonfiction in 2021, the Northern Ontario Writers Award for Nonfiction in 2023, and has twice been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. She serves as the General Editor of the Laurier Poetry Series and hosts the podcast Watershed Writers, featuring writers in the Grand River Region. Tanis is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, situated on traditional Haudenosaunee territory. With Ariel Gordon, Tanis co-edited the special “Moving on Land” issue of The Goose (2023). New writing has recently appeared in FreeFall, CV2, Consilience, and Abridged.

Mariam Pirbhai, Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak and Wynn, 2023)

Mariam Pirbhai’s Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging asks probing questions about whose cultural knowledge, and whose visions of the land, people in Canada are reproducing in our yards, gardens, and public spaces. As an immigrant to Canada, Pirbhai also asks what it means for her to be “another kind of occupant – dare I say, a new kind of settler – on Indigenous lands.” From the cultural histories of grass lawns and tamarinds to the question of whether mulberry trees should be allowed to bear fruit, this perceptive memoir illuminates the politics and pleasures of the plants we nurture and the plants we exile. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/garden-inventories-reflections-on-land-place-and-belonging

Mariam Pirbhai is full professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she specializes and teaches courses in postcolonial and diasporic literatures, and creative writing. Her newly released book of creative nonfiction titled Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023), was a 2023 Foreword Indies finalist for Nature/Nonfiction. Pirbhai is also the author of a novel titled Isolated Incident (Mawenzi 2022), winner of the 2024 Independent Publishers’ (IPPY) gold medal for Multicultural Fiction and silver medal for Regional Canadian Fiction, as well as a short story collection titled Outside People and Other Stories (Inanna 2017), winner of the 2018 Independent Publishers’ (IPPY) and 2019 American BookFest awards. She has also authored and edited pioneering academic works on the literatures of the global South Asian diaspora, including Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture: Novels of the South Asian Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific (University of Toronto Press, 2009), and has served as President of the Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly known as CACLALS), Canada’s longest-running scholarly association devoted to postcolonial and global anglophone literatures. She resides in Waterloo, Ontario, where she is grateful to live and work in the traditional territories of the Neutral, Anishnawbe and Haudenosaunee peoples. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants to Canada, Pirbhai has come to see in this land a deep wellspring of inspiration, as academic, creative writer, gardener and occasional dabbler in landscape painting. Find Mariam at https://mariampirbhai.ca/; on Instagram @mariampirbhai/; or on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/people/Mariam-Pirbhai/pfbid07RMRFAMctgJtqYUU9ffVK5DXAk8RGdar37cjvvqE9bfMfMeccj8PKGynqdQKjWXhl/;

Stephanie Rutherford, Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022)

Stephanie Rutherford’s Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada reframes our understanding of an iconic species. Drawing on a diverse array of literary texts and other sources, Rutherford illuminates how affect—including responses like fear, disgust, and devotion—has shaped and structured human-wolf relations. Theoretically astute and strikingly original, this book places the wolf at the centre of the Canadian story to address vital questions of power, nationhood, and sovereignty. Readers will think anew about wolves, while also grappling with the legacies of settler colonialism, the insights of Indigenous knowledge, and the meanings of the nonhuman in the Anthropocene.

https://www.mqup.ca/villain–vermin–icon–kin-products-9780228011088.php

Stephanie Rutherford is an Associate Professor in the School of the Environment at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada. Her research inhabits the intersections among political ecology, human-animal relations, and environmental justice. Find Stephanie on X @WolfieProf or https://www.stephanierutherfordphd.com/

For conference information, please visit

Migrations: ALECC 2024

Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada

2024 Biennial Conference: Migrations
Call for Proposals
19-22 June, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario

The 2024 Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC) biennial conference takes migrations as its theme as it seeks new ways of comprehending and responding to the complexity of migration in the past, present, and future. Migrations, in its plural register, is understood expansively, recognizing its many forms and the modes of unevenly distributed power that shape migrant experiences, whether human or otherwise. We understand migration not only as a consistent theme in planetary human and more-than-human history, but also as a phenomenon that is historically interconnected and shaped.

Our host site, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, is located on the shared traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples, which is part of the Dish with One Spoon Treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabe peoples. This Treaty symbolizes the agreement to share and protect our resources, and not to engage in conflict.

The 2024 ALECC conference invites thoughtful responses to interactions between literal and figurative more-than-human and human migrations. Submissions are welcome on the proposed theme and other related areas of interest from artists, creative writers, and scholars in the environmental arts and humanities, and migration studies, broadly defined.

We welcome those working in the following areas: Indigenous thought and practices, interdisciplinary praxis, pedagogy and climate change migrations, environmental feminisms, critical refugee studies, border studies, ecopoetics and literary studies, animal studies, plant humanities, materialisms, blue humanities, petrocultures and energy humanities, visual art, film, ecomedia studies, environmental histories, mobility studies, health studies, cultural geography, environmental philosophy, cultural studies, and related areas of environmental studies.

Migrations will be an in-person conference.
Submission Information

Original deadlines extended! Deadline for preformed panels is now 10 January 2024 and the deadline for paper proposals is 15 January 2024. Proposals must be submitted to conference@alecc.ca<mailto:conference@alecc.ca>.

To propose an individual paper, creative or other work, including a reading (20 minutes), please submit an anonymous (no name included) proposal that includes a title and a 250- to 300-word abstract, noting whether it is a creative or an academic paper. In a separate document (but the same email submission), please send name, proposal title, your preference for a scholarly, creative, or mixed session, any requests for audio-visual equipment, current contact information, and a one-page curriculum vitae (used for funding applications).

To propose a pre-formed scholarly panel or creative session (three to four presenters for a 90-minute session), please submit an anonymous proposal that includes a session title; a 200-word session abstract, including whether it is a creative, academic, or mixed panel; and a 250- to 300-word anonymous abstract for each paper/presentation. In a separate file, please send the session title, any requests for audio-visual equipment, and the names, contact information, and a one-page curriculum vitae for each presenter and the session organizer. Note the deadline for pre-formed panels or creative sessions is 01 December 2023 10 January 2024.

To propose some other kind of format or presentation (e.g., workshops, roundtables, exhibits, performances, lightning talks), please contact the organizing committee in advance of the deadline to discuss proposal submission requirements.

Submissions in English, French, or Indigenous languages will be accepted. Proposals should indicate clearly the nature of the session and all requests for audio-visual equipment and any other specific needs (e.g., space, moveable chairs, outdoor location, etc.). We ask that panel organizers attempt to include a diversity of participants.

Email submissions should include in the subject line the word SUBMISSION, the abstract type (panel, paper, other), and your (or the panel proposer’s) name: SUBMISSION paper Julia Devi, for example, or SUBMISSION panel Bo Kwon. We will acknowledge all submissions.

For more information about the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada / Association pour la litt?rature, l’environnement et la culture au Canada, please visit our website at <https://alecc.ca/. All presenters must be paid members of the organization or an affiliate by the date of the conference.

Acknowledging the ongoing, evolving conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, ALECC will follow municipal, provincial, and federal regulations (if any) and supports voluntary mitigation practices like masking.

General queries for the organizing committee may be sent to conference@alecc.ca<mailto:conference@alecc.ca>.

ALECC 2024 Organizing Committee:

Jenny Kerber              Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

Jordan Kinder             Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

Lisa Szabo-Jones       John Abbott College, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC

Conrad Scott               University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Ariel Kroon                  Independent scholar, Kitchener, ON

We welcome chapters examining climate fiction and science fiction novels, short stories, YA literature, graphic novels, comics, films, television, games, material culture, and other media.We have confirmed contributors from a dozen countries on six continents. 

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at 
https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no later than September 1, 2023. 

A sampling ofconfirmed contributors includes: 

• “Towards a Latin American Queer Feminist Cli-Fi through Trans Representations: From Caribbean Afro-Futurism to Neo-Gauchesca,” Victoria Jara, PhD, Departments of Languages and Cultures, Film Studies, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada 
• “Gender in/on the Brain: Plasticity and Non-Human Transness in Chi Ta-wei’s Novel The Membranes,” Alberto Poza Poyatos, MA, Department of Arts and Humanities, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain and Gabriel Remy-Handfield, PhD, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Australia 
• “Exploring Transgender Identities through African Mythologies in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater,” Gibson Ncube, PhD, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 
• “Queer Fusion Technologies and the Monsters We (Do Not) See in Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet and Bitter,” Oluwadunni Talabi, PhD, and Corina/Cori Wieser-Cox, MA, Linguistics and Literary Studies Department, University of Bremen, Germany 
• “Rivers Solomon’s Utopian Postnaturalism,” Michael Mayne, PhD, Queer Studies Department and English Department, Denison University, USA 
• “Speculative Disidentifications: Multiple Gender and Multiplication of Species in the Novels La comemadre by Roque Larraquy, La mucama de Omicunlé by Rita Indiana, and Ornamento by Juan Cárdenas,” Cristián Opazo, PhD, Facultad de Letras, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile; Ignacio Pastén Lopez, MA, Latin American, Iberian and Latin Cultures Program (LAILaC), City University of New York (CUNY), USA 
• “‘Truth is a matter of the imagination’: Redefining Vulnerability and Revisioning the Politics of War and the Poetics of Transgender Identities in The Left Hand of Darkness,” Khamsa Qasim, PhD, Department of English, International Islamic University, Pakistan 
• “Identity in Flux: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Transition in Chana Porter’s The Seep,” Jamiee Cook, MA, Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Maite Urcaregui, PhD, Department of English and Comparative Literature, San José State University, USA 
• “Organ/ic Gender and Trans*-planted Selves in Manjula Padmanabhan’s The Island of Lost Girls and Harvest,” M.A. Miller, PhD, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington State University, USA 

• “Rethinking the Genealogy of ‘Trans’ in Relation to ‘Monstrosity’ in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl,” Sezgi Öztop Haner, PhD, Department of English Literature, Dumlupınar University, Türkiye 
• “Reactionary and Recuperative Readings of Dr Jeckyll and Sister Hyde,” Mike Stack, PhD, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, UK 
• “Euphoria, Dysphoria, Genre, and Body-Swapping in The Skin I Live In and Sense8,” Allison Rittmayer, PhD, Department of English, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, USA 
• “Unpacking Time Loops in See You Yesterday,” Joshua Bastian Cole, PhD, Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University, USA 
• “A Trans-ing of Liminal Gender in Michael Faber’s Under the Skin,” Nicole Anae, PhD, Department of Literary and Cultural Studies, Central Queensland University, Australia 
• “‘Like hair colour’: Transbody Fluidity and Wish Fulfillment in The Runaways and Other Comics,” Pritesh Chakraborty, PhD, Department of English, Acharya Sukumar Sen Mahavidyalaya, India 
• “‘Not as before’: Sir Tristran’s Trans* Variance as Queer Body Positivity in Camelot 3,000,” Gabriel Schenk, DPhil, and Mercury Natis, MA, Department of Language and Literature, Signum University, USA 
• “‘As real a girl as anyone’: Subverting the Superhero Trope in April Daniels’ Dreadnought,” Anamarija Šporčič, PhD, Department of English, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 
• “Challenging Conventions and Shaping Identity: A Comparative Analysis of Transgender Narratives in Ninefox Gambit and The City in the Middle of the Night,” Lenka Filipova, PhD, English Department, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 

We are committed to including a broadly international group of scholarly contributors.  

The editor’s previous books include Ecofeminist Science Fiction (2021), Transgender India (2022), Transecology (2021), Xenolinguistics (2024), Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond (2021), and The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature (2023). 

This is a volume of literary, film, and media theory and criticism guided by both transgender studies and climate fiction/science fiction studies. To be competitive, abstracts must: 

• Show how transgender studies and climate fiction/science fiction studies can each provide perspectives typically overlooked, ignored, or downplayed by the other field. 
• Engage one or more key scholarly works from both transgender studies and climate fiction/science fiction studies, demonstrating the value of diverse approaches to analyzing literature, film, and other media. (If you do not list specific writings from both transgender studies and climate fiction/science fiction studies that you will draw upon, you have not addressed this point.) 
• As the result of this dialogue between transgender studies and climate fiction/science fiction studies, provide insights into literature, film, and other media that neither transgender studies nor climate fiction/science fiction studies can offer by itself. 

Any abstract that does not explicitly address the above three points in depth will likely be rejected. 

Solid first drafts of full chapters are due by February 1, 2024, and final versions that cross-reference other chapters extensively are due April 1, 2024. At least one author of each chapter must have already completed their doctorate. In your 200-word biography, please note the year and university where you earned your doctorate. Only previously unpublished works will be considered.  

Abstracts and biographies should be submitted as Word documents, and previously published chapters or articles should be submitted as PDFs. Both Word files and PDFs should contain the author’s name in the file names. Please include your email address in your biography file, or there will be no way to contact you. 

Chapter proposals are invited for Postcolonial Ecofeminist Literature. Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/PostcolonialEcofeministLiteratureProposals no later than June 10, 2023.

This is a volume of literary theory and criticism guided by both postcolonial and ecofeminist insights. To be competitive, proposals must:

• Show how postcolonial studies and ecofeminism can each provide perspectives typically overlooked, ignored, or downplayed by the other field.
• Engage one or more key theorists from both postcolonial studies and ecofeminism, demonstrating the value of diverse approaches to analyzing literary texts.
• As the result of this dialogue between postcolonial studies and ecofeminism, provide insights into literature that neither postcolonial studies nor ecofeminism can offer on its own. 

Any proposal that does not explicitly address the above three points in depth will likely be rejected.

A sample of confirmed chapters includes:

• “Eco-trauma in Hala Alyan’s Writings: A Postcolonial Ecofeminist Study,” Pervine Elrefaei, Cairo University, Egypt
• “Postcolonial Ecofeminist Perspectives on Philippine Literature,” Christian Jil Benitez, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines 
• “Beyond the Binary: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Indian Women’s Writing in English,” Gurpreet Kaur, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, UK
• “Postcolonial Ecofeminism and Recolonized Nature in Kaine Agary’s Yellow-Yellow,” Youngsuk Chae, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA
• “Rethinking Family through Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Doris Lessing’s Fiction,” Selcuk Senturk, Kafkas University, Türkiye
• “Alaska Toxic: Reading Masculinity, Militarism, and the Coloniality of Petroculture in Mei Mei Evans’ Oil and Water,” B. Jamieson Stanley, University of Delaware, USA
• “‘Nature’s answer to hysteria’: Postcolonial Ecofeminist Encounters in Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967),” Nicole Anae, Central Queensland University, Australia
• “The Karoo, The Veld, and the Co-Op: The Farm as Microcosm and Place for Change in Schreiner, Lessing, and Head,” Elena D. Karshmer, Florida International University, USA
• “Narratives in the Blue Humanities: Intersecting Tides of Postcolonial and Maritime Ecofeminism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide,” Mohammed Muharram, University of Bremen, Germany
• “The Ecocritical Exegeses of Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm,” Sandy Burnley, Michigan State University, USA

We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors. Authors will be notified whether their proposals are accepted by July 15, 2023. Solid first drafts of full chapters are due by November 15, 2023, and final versions that cross-reference other chapters extensively are due February 1, 2024. At least one author of each chapter must have already completed their doctorate. In your 200-word biography, please note the year and university where you earned your doctorate. Only previously unpublished works will be considered. 

Abstracts and biographies should be submitted as Word documents, and previously published chapters or articles should be submitted as PDFs. Both Word files and PDFs should contain the author’s name in the file names. Please include your email address in your biography file, or there will be no way to contact you.

Past books by the editor of Postcolonial Ecofeminist Literature include:

• The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature (2023)
• Indian Feminist Ecocriticism (2022)
• Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature (2021)
• Dystopias and Utopias on Earth and Beyond: Feminist Ecocriticism of Science Fiction (2021)
• Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices (2018)
• Ecofeminism in Dialogue (2017)
• Women and Nature?: Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment (2017)
• Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, and Literature (2012)
• Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse (2011)

We invite nominations for the next Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize for books published in 2020 and 2021.This biennial award is named in honour of Dr. Alanna F. Bondar (1968-2014), an ecocritic, ecofeminist, poet, teacher, and founding member of The Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada / L’Association pour la literature, l’environment et la culture au Canada (ALECC). Alanna was an Associate Professor of English at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and the author of the narrative poetic work There are many ways to die while travelling in Peru (Your Scrivener Press, 2011), as well as many scholarly publications. Alanna was also a passionate educator, writer, gardener, and knitter.

For more information, visit the Bondar Prize page here.

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