Faculté de Lettres, Traduction et Communication

Philixte et AmericaS

“At the intersection of postcolonial and ecocritical studies, my research focuses on contemporary fiction from English-speaking Canada and Oceania. Given the complexity of today’s multicultural and globalised world, my work favours a transnational and transcultural approach by examining both Indigenous and non-Indigenous texts. Through the prisms of ecopoetics and literary genres (magical realism and eco-Gothic in particular), my approach links aesthetic, rhetorical and stylistic devices to key issues in postcolonial ecocriticism and trauma studies. These issues, and my research objectives, seek to highlight the various manifestations of a hierarchical and hierarchising philosophy of life linked to past and present imperialist regimes. Thus, this field of research, combining ecocriticism and postcolonialism, serves as a constant reminder that any project of socio-ecological transformation in Canada and Oceania is inextricably linked to the legacy of British ecological imperialism, which has profoundly transformed these territories and societies."

• Main publications on DI-fusion