Green BAAS is the environmental and sustainability network of the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). It was founded in 2019 to respond to increasing concerns about the environment and the United States’ relationship to climate change, and to consider and direct the changes that BAAS can make to contribute to collective global climate action.
It is co-led by Dr Elsa Devienne (Northumbria University) and Dr Rebecca Tillett (University of East Anglia).
All BAAS members are welcome to join our steering committee and/or the Green BAAS mailing list.
BAAS has taken active steps to develop environmental teaching in American Studies. A roundtable on “Teaching Environmental American Studies in a Time of Crisis” was edited by Eithne Quinn and published in the Journal of American Studies in 2021. Another roundtable on the need to centre environmental justice in the American Studies curriculum was edited by Elsa Devienne and published open-access in Transatlantica (2022) under the title “CODE RED for American Studies: Embedding Climate and Environmental Justice in the American Studies Curriculum” with contributions by Philip J. Deloria, Rebecca Macklin, Debra J. Rosenthal and Jason Molesky, and Julie Sze.
At our 2024 AGM, we launched our first ever Climate Action Plan, which will be revised every year to reflect our ongoing and future commitments to global climate action. Do send your suggestions and remarks to our co-leads.