Physical landscapes and human-environment interactions have long been portrayed in literature and the arts. The modern environmentalist movement, which first appeared in the late nineteenth century and which gained traction in the 1960s, has resulted in a wide variety of fictional and nonfiction works addressing the evolving interaction between humans and the natural world. However, it was only in the early 1990s that “ecocriticism” emerged as a self-conscious critical practice, one that has gone through a variety of designations: environmental criticism, literary-environmental studies, literary ecology, literary environmentalism, green cultural studies or, more recently, environmental humanities. An eclectic and loosely organized movement, ecocriticism has focused heavily on literature, though it has also occasionally investigated art forms and media. With no single distinctive method, ecocriticism has become a field of critical inquiry across the disciplines, intersecting with the humanities and the sciences, using methods pertaining to geography, sociology, philosophy, politics, ethics and many other fields. The imbrications and intersections between ecocriticism and other approaches such as postcolonial ecocriticism, ecofeminism, urban ecocriticism, environmental justice ecocriticism,  material ecocriticism, or animal studies, to name just a few, has yielded fresh insights into the social concerns raised by environmental crises.

In this context, the upcoming issue of the East-West Cultural Passage Journal (https://sciendo.com/journal/EWCP), to be published in December 2025, will be dedicated to the ways in which ecocriticism has grown and has impacted the humanities, and the arts in general.

Proposals may include but are not limited to:

Waves of ecocriticism

Anthropocene and ecocriticism

Art and ecocriticism

Climate change and ecocriticism

Environmental-Justice ecocriticism

Feminist ecocriticism

Pastoral Theory and ecocriticism

Food and ecocriticism

Material ecocriticism

Media/film and ecocriticism

Posthumanist ecocriticism

Critical Plant Studies and ecocriticism

Animal Studies and ecocriticism

Articles will be subject to a blind peer reviewing process and must not be under consideration for any other publication.

Submission guidelines: The first page of the manuscript should carry the title, names of authors, institutional affiliations, a brief but detailed 200-word abstract, and 7-10 key words/ concepts. The article must be accompanied by a 200-word biographical note and must conform to MLA referencing (9th edition). Please see further information and instructions in the journal’s Submission Guidelines at: https://magazines.ulbsibiu.ro/ewcp/.