AustLit

'The Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture — Australia and New Zealand is devoted to fostering creative and scholarly work that explores the relationship between human culture and the physical environment; to sharing information and ideas—and to encouraging discussion, publication, and practice—about the human sciences and the environment.

'The membership comprises writers, artists, cinematographers, 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

'ASLEC-ANZ is affiliated with a worldwide network of similar associations, of which the first was founded in the USA in 1992 (www.asle.org), 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.'

Source: ASLEC-ANZ website, http://www.aslec-anz.asn.au/
Sighted: 07/12/2011