Stéphanie Posthumus - Portail des Humanités environnementales

Stéphanie Posthumus
Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, McGill University
688 Sherbrooke St. West, Room 331, Montreal, QC H3A 3R1
[email protected]
Tel: 514 389 4400 x094801
EDUCATION
1997 - 2003
1996 - 1997
1995 - 1997
1993 - 1994
1991 - 1995
Ph.D. French Literature, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, CANADA
D.E.A. Université Stendhal, Grenoble, FRANCE
M.A. French Literature, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, CANADA
Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, FRANCE
B.A. Combined Honours, Mathematics and French, Calvin College University, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, USA
AREAS OF ACADEMIC SPECIALIZATION
20th- and 21st- Century French Literature; ecocriticism/écocritique; French political ecology and
environmental philosophy; Animal Studies; science and literature; digital environmental humanities
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2011- pres.
Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, McGill
University, Montreal, QC
2005 - 2011 Assistant Professor, French Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
2001 - 2003 Lecturer, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of
Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Books - Under contract
Co-edited volume with Louisa Mackenzie, French Thinking about Animals. Michigan State
University Press. Contributions from Éric Baratay, Nathalie Blanc, Florence Burgat, Isabelle
Delannoy, Vinciane Despret, Carla Freccero, Marcela Iacub, Dominique Lestel, Marie-Hélène
Parizeau, Walter Putnam, Peter Sahlins, Anne Simon. 80,000-90,000 words. Anticipated publication
date – Spring 2014.
Monograph, French Écocritique: Reading Contemporary French Literature Environmentally.
University of Toronto Press. Intro: French écocritique; Chap1: Rethinking the Rural; Chap2:
Critiquing the Natural; Chap3: Connecting the Global; Chap4: Displacing the Human; Conclusion.
Anticipated length – 250 pages. Anticipated completion date – Fall 2014.
Articles - In press
Co-authored with Louisa Mackenzie. “Reading Latour Outside: A Response to the Estok-Robisch
Controversy,” Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment, ms ds 25 pages.
Anticipated publication date – Fall 2013.
Co-authored with Élise Salaün. “‘Mon pays, ce n’est pas un pays, c’est l’hiver’: Literary
Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Québec,” in Greening the Maple: Canadian
Ecocriticism in Context. Eds. Nicholas Bradley and Ella Soper-Jones. Calgary: University of Calgary
Press, 2013. Anticipated publication date – Fall 2013.
“Les Enjeux des animaux (humains) chez Michel Houellebecq, du darwinisme au post-humanisme,”
French Studies, ms ds 22 pages. Anticipated publication date – Spring 2014.
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Articles – Submitted
“Portraits de l’homo litteratus dans le darwinisme littéraire et La Possibilité d’une île de Michel
Houellebecq,” @nalyses, Revue de critique et de théorie littéraire, ms ds 24 pages.
PUBLICATIONS (2003-2013)
Books
2010 La Nature et l’écologie chez Lévi-Strauss, Serres, Tournier. Saarbruck: Éditions universitaires
européennes, 2010.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
2012 “Penser l’imagination environnementale française sous le signe de la difference,” Raison
publique 17 (2012): 15-31. * chosen as lead article
2012 “Writing the Land/scape: Marie Darrieussecq’s Le Pays,” French Literary Studies: The
Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film 30 (2012): 103-117.
2012 “Parcours météorologique, conscience climatique chez Michel Serres et Michel Tournier,” in
La Pluie et le beau temps. Discours scientifiques et transformations littéraires, du Moyen Age
à l’époque moderne. Ed. Karin Becker. Paris: Hermann, 2012. 379-98.
2011 “Vers une écocritique française: le contrat naturel de Michel Serres,” Mosaic, a journal for
the interdisciplinary study of literature 44.2 (2011): 85-100.
2011 Co-authored with Stéfan Sinclair. “L’Inscription de la nature et de la technologie dans La
possibilité d’une île de Michel Houellebecq,” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies
15.3 (2011): 349-356.
2010 “État des lieux de la pensée écocritique française,” Eco-zon@: European Journal of
Literature, Culture, Environment 1.1 (2010): 148-154.
2009 “‘Deux truites frémissant flanc à flanc’ : le structuralisme et l’écologisme chez Michel
Tournier,” Dalhousie French Studies 85 (2009): 167-82.
2008 “L’Exception écologiste française : Globalia de Jean-Christophe Rufin,” Contemporary
French & Francophone Studies 12.4 (2008): 455-62.
2008 “Framing French Eco-Difference: A Brief Overview,” Re-Public: Re-Imagining Democracy.
Special Issue: From climate change to environmental justice? (2008): 1-5. http://www.republic.gr/en/?p=415.
2007 “Translating Ecocriticism: Dialoguing with Michel Serres,” Reconstruction. Special Issue:
Eco-Cultures: Culture Studies and the Environment 7.2 (2007): 1-24.
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/072/contents072.shtml
2005 “Une approche écologique: les lieux d’enfance chez Michel Tournier,” Voix Plurielles.
Special Issue: Récits d’enfance. Ed. Hélène Cazes. 2.1 (2005): 1-12.
http://www.brocku.ca/cfra/voixplurielles03/index.html
2003 Posthumus, Stephanie and Stéfan Sinclair. “Ecology and Technology: ‘Dialogue de
sourds’?” Culture and the State: Landscape and Ecology. Vol. 1. Edmonton, AB: CRC
Studio, 2003. 167-77.
2000 “La Rencontre du texte avec la photographie chez Michel Tournier,” Western Journal of
Graduate Research 9 (2000): 35-48.
Dictionary Entry
2006 “Écocritique/Ecocriticism,” Dictionnaire international des termes littéraires /
International Dictionary of Literary Terms (DITL) Ed. Jean-Marie Grassin. Limoges: Vita
Nova, http://www.ditl.info, 2006. 1-7.
Book Reviews
2012 Book Review. Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches. Eds. Axel Goodbody and Kate
Rigby. The Goose 11 (2012): 119-22.
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2011
2009
2006
Book Review. Every Living Being: Representations of Nonhuman Animals in the Exploration
of Human Well-Being. Marie-France Boissonneault. The Goose 9 (2011): 35-36.
Book Review. “Mom, Will This Chicken Give Me Man Boobs?” My Confused, Guilt-Ridden,
and Stressful Struggle to Raise a Green Family. Robyn Harding. The Goose 6 (2009): 43-4.
Book Review. “Trois thèmes pour repenser Tournier : le moi, le monde et le rire.” Book
Review of Tournier. Ed. Jacques Poirier. Acta Fabula 7.4 (2006): 1-5.
http://www.fabula.org/revue/document1483.php
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (2003-2013)
2013 “Homo literatus, ou les (animaux) humains chez Michel Houellebecq.” Association des
professeur(e)s de français des universités et collèges canadiens. Congress of the Humanities
and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, June 2-5,
2013.
2013 “Culture Matters: Situating Géocritique in a French Cultural Context.” Biennial Conference.
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Lawrence, Kansas, May 28-June
2, 2013.
2013 “Renouveler l’approche écocritique par l’ouverture de la pensée écologique.” Journée d’étude:
La pensée écologique et l’espace littéraire. Département d’études françaises, Concordia
University, Montreal, QC, May 17, 2013.
2012 “The Environmental Text, à la francaise?” Annual Conference. North-Eastern Modern
Languages Association. Rochester, NY, March 15-18, 2012.
2011 “Writing the Land/scape: Marie Darrieussecq’s Le Pays.” International Conference: The
Environment in French & Francophone Literature & Film. Department of Languages,
Literatures, Cultures. University of South Carolina, March 17-19, 2011.
2010 “Environment, Landscape, Literature: In Search of a French Ecological Literary Theory.”
International Conference: Protecting nature and the environment in the 19th and 20th
centuries - the French experience. Association de l’histoire de la protection de la nature et
environnement. Paris IV, Sorbonne, Paris, September 23-25, 2010.
2010 “Les enjeux de l’animal chez Michel Houellebecq.” Association des professeur(e)s de
français des universités et collèges canadiens. Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences Federation of Canada. Concordia University, Montreal, May 28-31, 2010.
2010 Co-presenter Stéfan Sinclair. “Nature et technologie dans Les particules élémentaires et La
possibilité d’une île de Michel Houellebecq.” 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone
Studies International Colloquium. University of Guelph, Toronto, March 25-27, 2010.
2009 “Man, Dog, Clones: Island (After)Life in Michel Houellebecq’s La Possibilité d’une île.”
Biennial Conference. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Victoria,
BC, June 2-6, 2009.
2008 “Écrire le paysage: Le pays de Marie Darrieussecq.” Annual Conference. European
Association for the Study of Culture, Literature and Environment. Alcalá University, Alcalá
de Henares, Spain, Oct. 16-19, 2008.
2007 “Surveying the Landscape: Contemporary French Eco-Difference.” International Conference:
Nature Matters: Materiality and the More-than-Human in Cultural Studies of the
Environment. York University, Toronto, Oct. 25-28, 2007.
2007 “‘Le Bonheur dans la nature’? l’environnementalisme chez Jean-Christophe Rufin.” 20th and
21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. Texas A&M
University, College Station, March 22-24, 2007.
2006 “Le Genre post-pastoral et les modèles de la nature dans Mort d’un berger de Franz-Olivier
Giesbert.” International Conference: L’idée de la nature dans les littératures romanes. Sofia
University, Bulgaria. Sept. 29-Oct.1, 2006.
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2005
2004
2003
2003
“Human/Animal Domestication: The Case of the French Philosophers’ Cats.”
Environmental Studies Association of Canada. Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences Federation of Canada. York University, May 31-June 2, 2006.
“Pour une écocritique québécoise.” Association of Canadian and Québécois Literatures.
Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. University of
Western Ontario. May 29-31, 2005.
“Une approche écologique: les lieux d’enfance chez Michel Tournier. ” Association des
professeur(e)s de français des universités et collèges canadiens. Congress of the Humanities
and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. University of Manitoba. May 29-June 1, 2004
“Figure and Place: The Mariner and His Seas in Michel Serres’s Literary Texts.” Biennial
Conference. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Boston University.
June 6-10, 2003.
Co-presenter Stéfan Sinclair. “Ecology and Technology: ‘Dialogue de sourds’?” International
Conference: Culture and State, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, May 4-6, 2003.
SYMPOSIUMS, ROUND TABLES, INVITED SPEAKER
2013 Departmental symposium. “Reading Words, Reading Worlds: Nature and Landscape in
Literary Texts.” Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures. McGill University. March
20, 2013
2013 Round table. “Navigating Academia.” Labyrinths: Navigating Complexity Across the
Humanities. McGill University English Graduate Student Conference. Feb. 15, 2013.
2013 Invited speaker. “Reading Outdoors? Literature, Environment, Culture.” Faculty in Rez Event.
McGill Environment Residence Council. University Hall, McGill University. Feb. 12, 2013.
2012 Round table: “Silent Spring at 50: Rachel Carson and Cultures of Environmentalism.”
IPLAI/McGill School of the Environment. McGill University. September 21, 2012.
2008 Invited speaker. “Celebrating the Natural Contract as Metaphor and Story.” Symposium:
Michel Serres and the Natural Contract. Institute for the Humanities, Simon Fraser
University. February 14-16, 2008.
2005 Round table. “Internationalizing ASLE.” Being in the World, Living with the Land. 6th
Biennial Conference. Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment,
University of Oregon. June 21-25, 2005.
RESEARCH FUNDING
Workshop Grants
2013 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Connections Grant, “Digital
Environmental Humanities: Building Frameworks, Tools, and Partnerships.” $36,973
2013 Dean of Arts Development Fund, “Digital Environmental Humanities: Building Frameworks,
Tools, and Partnerships.” $2000
Conference Grants
2010 Arts Research Board (ARB) Grant, McMaster University, $1934
2010 ARB Grant, McMaster University, $882
2008 ARB Grant, McMaster University, $1300
2007 ARB Grant, McMaster University, $621
2006 ARB Grant, McMaster University, $1586
Research Grants
2013 SSHRC GRF, McGill Internal Funding, $2500
2012 SSHRC GRF, McGill Internal Funding, $5000
2008 ARB Grant, McMaster University, $4245
2006 French Department Research Grant, McMaster University, $1500
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SPECIAL HONOURS, AWARDS, RECOGNITION
2012
Lead article for special issue on “L’imagination environnementale.” “Penser
l’imagination environnementale française sous le signe de la difference,” Raison
publique 17 (2012): 15-31.
2010
Best article prize for “‘Deux truites frémissant flanc à flanc’ : le structuralisme et
l’écologisme chez Michel Tournier.” Dalhousie French Studies 85 (2009): 167-82.
Awarded by the Association des professeur(e)s de français des universités et collèges
canadiens.
2001 - 2002 Ontario Government Scholarship ($15 000)
Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Western Ontario ($6 000)
2000 - 2001 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship ($16 500)
1999 - 2000 Ontario Government Scholarship ($13 000)
1997 - 2000 Special University Scholarship, University of Western Ontario ($8 000 per year)
1995 - 1996 Graduate Award, Queen's University ($6 000)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2012 - pres. Advisory Board member, Ecozon@, Journal of the European Association for the Study
of Literature, Culture, Environment
2009 - 2012 Elected member-at-large, Association for the Study of Environment, Literature, and
Culture in Canada
2009 - 2011 McMaster University Faculty Association Representative, Department of French
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