Cuatro décadas de estudios de ecocrítica y más allá—Retrospectiva y perspectiva: Una entrevista con Scott Slovic

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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2025.16.2.5575

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Scott Slovic, retrospectiva y perspectiva, ecocrítica empírica

Resumen

Scott Slovic, profesor distinguido de Humanidades Ambientales en la Universidad de Idaho en los Estados Unidos, fue el primer presidente de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Literatura y el Medio Ambiente (ASLE) desde 1992 hasta 1995, y editó ISLE: Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Literatura y Medio Ambiente, la principal revista en el campo de la ecocrítica, desde 1995 hasta 2020. Tras casi cuarenta años estudiando la ecocrítica, se jubiló a finales de 2023 de su puesto como profesor universitario y ahora es investigador senior en el Oregon Research Instittue. En esta entrevista, Slovic echa la vista atrás para explorar sus estudios de ecocrítica de las últimas cuatro décadas, resumiendo sus importantes aportaciones, y expone su plan de investigación futuro clarificando que vuelve a los estudios ecocríticos desde perspectivas empíricas que ya hizo en su juventud y que en este nuevo viaje que va a centrarse en la ecocrítica empírica, un nuevo campo emergente dentro de la ecocrítica. Hizo comentarios incisivos sobre la ecocrítica empírica, ilustrando la implicación de ésta, la necesidad e importancia, la metodología y la estrategia de tener estudios ecocríticos empíricosCuat.

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Lifu Jiang, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Jiang Lifu, Ph.D., is Professor of English Literature at the College of Foreign Languages, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, China. He served as the Vice Dean of College of Foreign Languages of NUAA from 2020. He specializes in English literature, ecocriticism and environmental humanities. Much of his current research focuses on the Anthropocene, Cli-fi, Traditional Chinese Medicine Ecocriticism, etc. He published three books and over 60 papers in the field of the Anthropocene, ecocriticism and environmental humanities.

Scott Slovic, University of Idaho

Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Idaho in the United States, was the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and he edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, the major journal in the field of ecocriticism from 1995 to 2020. After nearly forty years of studying ecocriticism, he retired from his full-time faculty position at the end of 2023 and is now a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute.

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2025-10-30

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Vol. 16 Núm. 2 (2025): Humanidades vegetales en el Amazonas

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