Nicole Seymour's Book "Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination" Wins ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award
24.06.2015
Carson Alumna Nicole Seymour has won the 2015 ASLE Ecocriticism Book Award for her book Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination. Winners of the 2015 ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Book Awards were announced earlier in June, and the official presentation of awards is occurring this week at the Eleventh ASLE Biennial Conference, held at the University of Idaho.
Judges said of her book:
"Nicole Seymour’s Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination is an ambitious, intelligent, and subtle intervention on the longstanding division between queer theory and the "natural." Building on a deep appreciation of how the natural has historically been deployed against sexualities and identities outside the heteronormative, and the links between that violence and environmental degradation, Seymour identifies vitally important tradition of queer environmentalism in contemporary literature and film from the Americas. Strange Natures is a major contribution to the queering of ecocriticism and the greening of queer theory."