Scott Slovic served as the founding president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) from 1992 to 1995, and since 1995 he has edited ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. After teaching at the University of Nevada, Reno, for seventeen years, he became professor of literature and environment at the University of Idaho in 2012. The author, editor, or coeditor of twenty books in the field of ecocriticism and environmental literature, his most recent publication is Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism, which he coedited with Indian scholars Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Germany, Japan, and China, and he frequently lectures and teaches in far-flung regions of the world.