Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism explores the relationship between literary, artistic and popular culture and the various conceptions of the environment articulated by scientific ecology, philosophy, sociology and literary and cultural theory. We publish academic articles that seek to illuminate divergences and convergences among representations and rhetorics of nature – understood as potentially including wild, rural, urban and virtual spaces – within the context of global environmental crisis.
As the journal of ASLE-UKI (the UK-Ireland branch of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), our approach reflects the politically-engaged ecocritical tradition, inspired by Cultural Studies, on this side of the Atlantic. Since the journal was founded in 2000, Green Letters has published work consistent with our position as the only ecocritical print periodical in Europe. This encompasses close reading of cultural artefacts and sophisticated theoretical approaches reflective of British, Irish or European culture or British, Irish or European philosophical approaches and theories. Within these parameters, however, we warmly welcome work from scholars working in any country.
Green Letters is published three times yearly, with two themed editions and one unthemed. Recent themes have included eco-musicology, Victorian ecology, pre-Modern literature, ecophenomenology and the sacred, animal studies, and global and postcolonial ecocriticism. These themed editions allow us to anticipate developments in ecocriticism and produce coherent collections of new work, and are generally guest edited by experts in their respective fields. The unthemed editions allow for less prescriptive and potentially more innovative contributions to ecocritical discourse. Academic articles are supplemented by reviews of new ecocritical publications and, at times, major conferences and other events. Supported by an internationally recognised advisory board, this peer-reviewed journal aims to maintain a contemporaneous and wide-ranging perspective on natural, social and cultural ecologies and their systemic interrelationships.
Peer review policy
Articles in this journal are subject to double-blind peer review by at least two referees.
