The organizers invite proposals for papers on cultural representations that make it possible for sustainability studies and southern studies to meet on productive critical grounds. How does culture define relations between the U.S. South and the global imperative of sustainability? How might depictions of southern agricultural practices, industrial processes, and modes of energy production and consumption help to elucidate the history of environmental degradation and the present moment of ecological crisis? How does the South figure in narratives that plot sustainable futures or in those that imagine the risks and consequences of inaction? Proposals for papers that explore these or related questions in works of literature, film, and other media from any period are welcome. Send a brief bio and a 300-word abstract to Ted Atkinson by March 15, 2015.
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