From Ecocriticism to Environmental Humanities: A Brief Overview of Publications in Spain

Since its beginnings in the 1990s, ecocriticism has undoubtedly been a constantly evolving academic field that addresses one of the most relevant topics of recent years: human relationship to/with the environment, or the lack thereof. This review essay offers an overview of relevant publications regarding ecocriticism, and its corollary, environmental humanities, with a specific focus on Spain, through three main publications that cover a period of ten years. Starting with Ecocríticas. Literatura y medio ambiente published in 2010, going through Visiones ecocríticas del mar en la literatura in 2016, to finish with Humanidades ambientales: pensamiento, arte y relatos para el siglo de la gran prueba, published in 2018. This review essay will moreover mention other relevant publications, most of which have been reviewed in this journal. Edited by Carmen Flys Junquera, José Manuel Marrero Henríquez and Julia Barella Vigal, the main objective of Ecocríticas (2010) at the time was to open the doors of ecocriticism to the Spanish-speaking world—a subject barely known beyond Englishspeaking countries back then—and establish the foundation of this field in a language other than English.1 This volume was the first major publication by GIECO2, a research group devoted to investigating the interconnections among literature, culture, and the