Spring begins ? On ecopoetics at university

Author(s)

  • Jean-Christophe Cavallin Aix-Marseille University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19411

Keywords:

textualism, ecological humanities, systems theory, asymbolism, Venice Biennale

Abstract

This text offers a collective reflection and feedback on five years of teaching in the Master écopoétique et création program at Aix-Marseille University. The duel of two highly whimsical pseudo-concepts – « Durassic Park » and « Descolatour Regime in literature » – serves to illustrate the double bind of a teaching and literary criticism inevitably torn between disciplinary solipsism and contextual urgency.

Author Biography

  • Jean-Christophe Cavallin, Aix-Marseille University

    Jean-Christophe Cavallin teaches modern literature at Aix-Marseille University, where he founded the Master’s program in Ecopoetics and Creation. He is the author of several works on Chateaubriand. He has published with Éditions Corti Valet noir. Vers une écologie du récit (2021) and Nature, berce-le. Culture et trauma (2022), both. In 2024, he published Pastorales, a collection of contemporary bucolics (co-written with Violaine Bérot and Florence Debove), with Wildproject, and Les enfants de Madame Ô, a children's book illustrated by Jérémie Moreau, with Albin Michel.

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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

Essays

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Copyright (c) 2024 Jean-Christophe Cavallin

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How to Cite

“Spring begins ? On ecopoetics at university” (2024) Relief - Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise, 18(1), pp. 198–210. doi:10.51777/relief19411.