Nature, Culture and Literature is one of the longest-standing series in the international environmental humanities. It provides a platform for the practice of ecocriticism in the broadest sense, understood as an issue-driven field of cultural enquiry comprising critical textual analysis and theorising on human/nature relations.
We seek publications approaching literature and other forms of text-based communication from an ecological standpoint, and welcome studies going beyond the Anglophone world (including European, but also African and Asian literatures), and cross-cultural comparative studies. The series is open to scholars working in green media studies, environmental history, philosophy, social and cultural theory, religious studies, art and cinema / TV.
The series publishes single-author monographs and thematically focused collections of essays, on writing and images across languages, cultures, and periods.
Individual volumes focus on a specific area of research. These can include:
・Examining the work of a single author / creator or the characteristics of the environmental imagination in a particular culture.
・Mapping one of the themes central to popular understandings of nature and exploring their creative reconfiguration (e.g. nature and national/regional identity, human/ animal relations, or climate change).
・Developing and illustrating a particular theoretical approach (for instance in energy humanities, environmental ethics, food studies, or econarratology / ecopoetics).
All volumes are peer reviewed.
Brill invites prospective authors to consider Open Access for books and chapters, but this is not a condition for being published. More information can be found at https://brill.com/page/bookoa/open-access-for-books-and-chapters.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals to the publisher at BRILL, Christa Stevens.
General Editors:
Hubert van den Berg, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic
Axel Goodbody, University of Bath, UK
Caroline Schaumann, Emory University, USA
Marcel Wissenburg, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Advisory Board:
Margarita Carretero González, University of Granada, Spain
Brycchan Carey, University of Northumbria, UK
Terry Gifford, Bath Spa University, UK
Reinhard Hennig, University of Agder, Norway
Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Vermont, USA
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona, USA
Bénédicte Meillon University of Angers, France
Kenneth Nsah, University of Cologne, Germany
Ulrike Plath, Tallinn University, Estonia
Luis Prádanos, Miami University, USA
Chitra Sankaran, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Piers Stephens, University of Georgia, USA
Bronislaw Szerszynski, University of Lancaster, UK
Nina Witoszek, University of Oslo, Norway