"Acquiring knowledge in the field rather than exclusively at school". Interview with Rachel Bouvet

Author(s)

  • Aude Jeannerod Université Catholique de Lyon
  • Morgane Leray Aix-Marseille University
  • Olivier Sécardin Hiroshima University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19399

Keywords:

Rachel Bouvet, geopoetics, interview, teaching, creative writing

Abstract

For Rachel Bouvet, literary studies are reinvented through contact with other disciplines: geography, for a geopoetic approach to texts, but also the life sciences, for a global approach to plants. More broadly, it is through movement, exploration and encounters with otherness that the researcher intends to bring literary research and creation into dialogue. Rachel Bouvet is a professor in the Department of Literary Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She first worked on spaces and places in literature as part of a geopoetic approach, before turning her attention to the relationship between literature and botany. She co-founded La Traversée - Atelier de géopoétique, as well as GRIVE (Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le végétal et l'environnement). With Stéphanie Posthumus, she co-directed the volume Mouvantes et émouvantes. Les plantes à travers le récit (Presses universitaires de Montréal, 2024).

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Author Biographies

  • Aude Jeannerod, Université Catholique de Lyon

    Aude Jeannerod is Assistant Professor in French literature at UCLy and a member of the UR Confluence: Sciences et Humanités (EA1598). In 2020 she published her doctoral thesis, La Critique d'art de Joris-Karl Huysmans. Esthétique, poétique, idéologie, published by Classiques Garnier. Her research focuses on the relationship between literature and the arts and the history of ideas, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.

  • Morgane Leray, Aix-Marseille University

    Morgane Leray is an Assistant Professor in French language and literature at Aix-Marseille University. Her research on the fin-de-siècle and, more broadly, on the eschatological imagination has led her to study the place of nature in it and to develop a body of work on environmental humanities. She is also examining their didactics and the role of interdisciplinarity, which is the subject of a seminar she is leading in a Master’s programme for future teachers.

  • Olivier Sécardin, Hiroshima University

    Olivier Sécardin is assistant professor of French language and literature, comparative literature and intercultural communication. After teaching at Columbia University (New York), Kyushu University (Japan), the University of Chicago, Cornell University and Utrecht University, he is currently associate professor at Hiroshima University and co-editor in chief of Relief. 

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Published

2024-07-15

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024): At the School of Life: teaching literature with environmental humanities

Section

Interviews

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How to Cite

Jeannerod, A., Leray, M. and Sécardin, O. (2024) “‘Acquiring knowledge in the field rather than exclusively at school’. Interview with Rachel Bouvet”, RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 18(1), pp. 44–53. doi:10.51777/relief19399.