About: Joni Adamson

Joni Adamson (born 1958) is an American literary and cultural theorist. She is considered one of the main proponents of environmental justice and environmental literary criticism, or Ecocriticism. She is a professor of the environmental humanities (also known as the "ecological humanities") and senior sustainability scholar at Arizona State University in Arizona. In 2012–13, she served as President of the Association for the Study Literature and Environment (ASLE), the primary professional organization for environmental literary critics (over 1800 members in 41 countries around the world). From 1999 to 2010, she founded and led the Environment and Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association (ASA-ECC).