The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (Australia and New Zealand), founded in 2005, is devoted to fostering both creative and scholarly work exploring the relationship between human culture and the physical environment.

ASLE-ANZ has an interdisciplinary focus on the greening of the human sciences, arts, culture, writing and literary scholarship in Australia and New Zealand, through the promotion of ecocriticism, nature writing, and ecological applications throughout the disciplines.

The purpose of ASLE–ANZ is to share information and ideas—and to encourage discussion, publication, and practice—about the human sciences and the environment, and the relationship between them. ASLE–ANZ hopes to encourage environmentally oriented, nature-literate, place-based productions (essays, poetry, film, installations, and so on) from the various disciplines, in Australia and New Zealand; and to nurture ecologically informed scholarship of literature, the arts and other cultural creations.

The membership of ASLE-ANZ comprises writers, artists and musicians as well as academics working in and across several areas of the Ecological Humanities, including ecocritical literary and cultural studies, environmental history and the history of science, anthropology and ecophilosophy.

ASLE-ANZ is affiliated with a worldwide network of similar associations, of which the first was founded in the USA in 1992 (http://www.asle.org/site/home/), followed by Korea (ASLE), the UK (ASLE), Japan (ASLE), Europe (EASCLE), India (OSLE and ASLE) and Canada (ALECC), with more in the process of formation elsewhere.

Whether you are new to the field, a seasoned professional, or just interested in people’s relationships with the more-than-human world, ASLE-ANZ welcomes your participation in these and other events and in our organisation.