Joni
Adamson
President’s Professor of English and Environmental Humanities. Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative & Flagship Hub, UNESCO BRIDGES Sustainability Coalition Arizona State University.
Experience
For over twenty years, I have been working as an environmental and literary humanist.
In 2012, I was honored to serve as President of the Association for the Study Literature and Environment (ASLE), the largest environmental humanities organization in the world with members in 41 countries. From 1999 to 2010, I founded and led the Environment and Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association (ASA-ECC). I am currently the Secretary General of the Humanities for the Environment Global Network of Humanities Observatories (HfE) and Director of the North American Observatory.
Book Series
Co-editor
With Scott Slovic and Masumi Yuki, Routledge Environmental Humanities Book Series.
Secretary
General
Humanities for the Environment Global Network (HfE)
Director and
Founding Convener
North American Observatory, Humanities for the Environment Global Network (HfE)
Member
Technical Advisory Council, “Bridging Barriers: Planet Texas 2050 – Research Plan,” University of Texas at Austin
President
Arizona State University Faculty Women’s Association (FWA)
President /
President-Elect
Past President, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
Founder
and Head
American Studies Association’s Environment and Culture Caucus (ASA- ECC)
Academic
Representative
Federal Facilities Working Group, National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Founding Co-organizer
and Member
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), Diversity Caucus.
Areas of Expertise
I write on the centrality of the environmental humanities to the sustainability sciences, environmental justice, climate fiction and film, Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies, the rights of nature movement, and the food justice movement.
- environmental humanities
- Environmental Justice Critical Studies
- Environmental Literature and Literary Criticism
- food justice
- Global Indigenous Studies
- Southwest American and Sonoran Desert Studies
Teaching
Keynotes, Lectures and Workshops.

Keynotes,
Lectures and Workshops
Publications
I am the author and/or co-editor of eight books and special issues.

The New Normal? An Environmental Humanities Response to COVID-19

The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, & Pedagogy

Ethnicity and Ecocriticism. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US

American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place

American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Ecology: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos

Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice

The Green Humanities Lab: The Ecological and Digital Humanities
Service to the profession.
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literatures, Culture, and Theory; Concentric; Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment; Elohi: Indigenous Peoples and the Environment; Environmental Ethics; Environmental Humanities; Environmental Justice; Hypatia; ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment; Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies; Journal of Transnational American Studies; Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture; Environmental Humanities; LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; Modern Fiction Studies; MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States; Neoheliocon; Resilience: A Journal of the Sustainable Humanities; SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literature; Western American Literature


