Scott Slovic

When not lecturing over Zoom, working on various research and editing projects in the environmental humanities, or training as a distance runner, Scott Slovic spends much of his time picking weeds in his home garden in Eugene, Oregon, USA, where he and his wife Susie grow blueberries, artichokes, tomatoes, and various other edible and pollinator-friendly plants. Scott served as the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) in the early 1990s and was then editor-in-chief of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment from 1995 to 2020. At present, while teaching remotely as University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho, he serves as co-editor of the book series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment and Routledge Environmental Humanities. He is also contributing editor of the website www.arithmeticofcompassion.org.

Scott and Serena Chou are currently guest co-editing a special issue of Lagoonscapes: Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities devoted to arboreal ecocriticism. Scott’s other recent projects include the co-edited books Nature and Literary Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2022; with Peter Remien) and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Medical-Environmental Humanities (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022; with Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran).

Email: slovic@uidaho.edu