The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the need for us as scholars to re-assess our history and culture through an ecological lens also steadily increases. Where is seventeenth-century ecocriticism now, and where is it going? We invite papers that appraise the current state of early modern eco-criticism and Anthropocene studies or map out new approaches and intersections for this work (such as Indigenous ecologies, premodern critical race studies and the environment, and trans ecologies). We welcome papers that model how scholars can take more public and active roles in conversations about the climate crisis, including cross-disciplinary collaborations, pedagogical strategies, and community involvement. Please send 250-word abstracts and 100-word bios to Sarah Wall-Randell (swallran@wellesley.edu) by March 15, 2025.