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Research Article 21 April 2025
“Everything will be dead:” The Eco-Activist Archetype in a Time of Bewilderment
Grant McMillanISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf033, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf033 -
Book Review 17 April 2025
The Return of the Contemporary: The Latin American Novel in the End Times. By Nicolás Campisi
Nuria Angélica Sánchez MatíasISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf036, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf036 -
Book Review 16 April 2025
Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race. By Kathryn Yusoff
Helen GaniyISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf035, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf035 -
Research Article 12 April 2025
Two Archipelagos, One Planet: Ishimure and Glissant
Christine MarranISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf030, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf030 -
Research Article 7 April 2025
Eroding Narratives: California’s Coastlines and the Mythology of Nova Albion
Kirsten SchuhmacherISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf028, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf028 -
Research Article 3 April 2025
The Liquid Plantationocene and Jesmyn Ward’s Let Us Descend (2023)
Cydney PhillipISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf029, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf029 -
Research Article 2 April 2025
An Earth Brimming with Interest: Everyday Landscapes and Multispecies Relevance in The Nature Book
Ben De BruynISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf027, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf027 -
Research Article 31 March 2025
Dominican Tíguere and Cuir Ecologies in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Omicunlé (2015)
H Manuel Acevedo-ReyesISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf025, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf025 -
Research Article 27 March 2025
A Poetics of Erosion: Beverly Buchanan’s Marsh Ruins and Lucille Clifton’s “mulberry fields”
Elleza KelleyISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf026, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf026 -
Research Article 18 March 2025
Subverting the Wasteocene Logic through Counternarratives: Decolonial and Affective Solidarity in Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148
Isabel Pérez-RamosISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf024, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf024 -
Research Article 18 March 2025
The Poetics and Ontologies of Fresh Water in Settler Contexts
Teresa Shewry and Philip SteerISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf023, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf023 -
Research Article 14 March 2025
Islands of Transition: Reimagining Climate Futures in Caribbean Queer and Trans Speculative Fiction
Ysabel MuñozISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf022, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf022 -
Other 8 March 2025
A Cenotaph
Sam MayneISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf020, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf020 -
Book Review 8 March 2025
Consider the Rooster. By Oliver Baez Bendorf. Nightboat Books, 2024.108 pp. Paper $19.95
Sarah GiragosianISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf021, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf021 -
Research Article 5 March 2025
The Erotics of Fruit; or, Elio and Oliver and the Giant Peach
Jeremy ChowISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf019, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf019 -
Research Article 25 February 2025
Against Allegory, or How to Re-Inhabit the Indigenous Storyworld
Mankun LiuISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf018, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf018 -
Research Article 22 February 2025
Legal Personhood and Literary Resistance: Rita Mestokosho’s River Writing in Quebec
Laura J LothISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf017, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf017 -
Research Article 21 February 2025
Black (on) Earth: Land, Labor, and Rhyme
Kassidi Shuron JonesISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf013, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf013 -
Research Article 20 February 2025
“(Re)Making Generations: Gayl Jones’s Corregidora and Black Women’s Ecologies”
Carlyn Ena FerrariISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf014, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf014 -
Research Article 17 February 2025
The Role of Religion in Mā’ohi Antinuclear Literature: Weaving Christian Liberation Theology and Indigenous Cosmogonic Stories
Anaïs MaurerISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf008, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf008 -
Research Article 11 February 2025
Speculative Feminism and Odd-kinships in Shweta Taneja’s Cli-fi Narratives: Empathy, Fungal Turn and Queer Futurity
Meenakshi S and Krupa ShahISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf012, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf012 -
Other 7 February 2025
“Bat Body Found Under Basement Dryer”
G C WaldrepISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf005, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf005 -
Research Article 6 February 2025
“Evolving Away from the Human Path” or Performing Plasticity? Crimes of the Future (2022) and David Cronenberg’s Queer Ecologies
Bethany FincherISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf009 -
Research Article 6 February 2025
The Resilience of Vulnerability: Writing as Misreading, Inquiry, Process (and Failure) in the Ecopoetry of Orchid Tierney
Paola LoretoISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf007, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf007 -
Research Article 30 January 2025
Toward a Crematory Epiphany: Dark Ecological Responses to Two Post-socialist Crises in Li Yang’s Blind Shaft (2003)
Xingming WangISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae087, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae087 -
Research Article 28 January 2025
From Human to Humus: Terrapolisian Materiality as Metaphysical Opportunity in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Slave Old Man (1997)
Helen GaniyISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isaf001, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaf001 -
Research Article 10 January 2025
From “Dust” to “Dirt”: Bodily Environmental Engagement in Henry Green’s Living
Regina M YoungISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae090, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae090 -
Research Article 9 January 2025
The Brown Tongue: Eduardo C. Corral, José Muñoz, and Border Assemblages
Isabel Duarte-GrayISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae086, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae086 -
Research Article 13 December 2024
Contesting Inevitability: Biocentric Poiesis and Ecoperformance in the Collective Ecologies of Lake Atitlán
Elizabeth M Pettinaroli and Josué Chavajay QuiacainISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae084, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae084 -
Research Article 12 December 2024
Out of the Woods: The Nature of Gender in Le Roman de Silence
Aylin MalcolmISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae083, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae083 -
Research Article 20 November 2024
Once Upon a Pandemic: Filelfo’s Cli-Fable L’assemblea degli animali (The Assembly of Animals, 2020)
Laura Di BiancoISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae081, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae081 -
Research Article 9 November 2024
George Mackay Brown’s Rune Poems
Felicity SheehyISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae077, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae077 -
Research Article 7 November 2024
Multispecies Translation: Baptiste Morizot’s Crisis of Sensibility, Richard Powers’ The Overstory, and the Language of Plants
Hedwig FraunhoferISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae079, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae079 -
Research Article 4 November 2024
The Colors of Vanishing Ice: Mapping the Arctic in Contemporary Young Adult Literature
Irene BordignonISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae078, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae078 -
Research Article 4 November 2024
Stevie Wonder’s Radically Environmentalist Pop-Music Songwriting
Robert ZandstraISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae072, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae072 -
Research Article 1 November 2024
Peter Larkin’s Tree Thinking Poetics
Heather MartinISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae071, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae071 -
Research Article 30 October 2024
Space/Race: Octavia E. Butler, Off-Earth Futures, and Life Beyond Settlerism
Alaia SnellISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae076, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae076 -
Research Article 29 October 2024
Gardening in the Plantationocene: Plotting Multispecies Subsistence in Olive Senior’s Decolonial Ecopoetics
Chih-Chien HsiehISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae073, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae073 -
Research Article 28 October 2024
Climate Inaction’s Ugly Feelings
Claire RavenscroftISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae069, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae069 -
Research Article 28 October 2024
“Return of the Repressed”: Postcolonial Modernity, Climate Change, and the Peripheral Aesthetics in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island (2019)
Nobonita Rakshit and Rashmi GaurISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae075, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae075 -
Research Article 24 October 2024
Degrowth Aesthetics and the Barely-There Novel: Reading Sara Baume
Berthold SchoeneISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae074, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae074 -
Research Article 23 October 2024
“The Spectral Climates of ‘Emerging Senegal’ in Mati Diop’s Atlantics.”
John WalshISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae053, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae053 -
Research Article 16 October 2024
Postcolonial Eco Cinema: Re-framing the African Environment in Jeta Amata’s Black November
Chikwurah Destiny IsiguzoISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae070, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae070 -
Research Article 16 September 2024
Transcorporeal Temporalities at the Three Gorges Dam
Christine XiongISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae055, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae055 -
Research Article 13 September 2024
The Inexhaustible Value of “Useless” Desert Rocks in Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland
Jada AchISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae061, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae061 -
Research Article 11 September 2024
The Future of Mourning: Queer Indigeneity, Climate Precarity, and Ecological Futurity through minBunun
Dingru HuangISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae062, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae062 -
Research Article 3 September 2024
“I struggled with anthropomorphisms”: On the Problem of Metaphors, Happiness, and Forests in Finding the Mother Tree
Tathagata Som and Kit DobsonISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae048, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae048 -
Research Article 30 August 2024
Walking as Climate Resistance in Octavia E. Butler
Leila BraunISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae057, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae057 -
Research Article 22 August 2024
“Ephemeral Train”: Creativity and the Nonhuman in Lydia Sigourney’s Coral Poems
Elizabeth A PetrinoISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae052, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae052 -
Research Article 21 August 2024
Unstable Affects and Temporal Complexity in Two Doggerland Novels by Élisabeth Filhol and Ben Smith
Marco CaraccioloISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, isae051, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae051