"Animality runs right through the human being". Interview with Anne Simon

Author(s)

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

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51777/relief19414

Keywords:

Anne Simon, zoopoetics, interview, teaching, literature

Abstract

Zoopoetics studies the diversity of stylistic, linguistic and narrative means used to convey the diversity of animal emotions and behaviour, as well as the diversity of their worlds. How does this field of research fit in with environmental literary studies? How does zoopoetics help to renew the ways in which literature is studied, from school to university? Director of research at the CNRS, Anne Simon is a French researcher in literary and philosophical studies. A specialist in Proust, she has focused her work on the living and animality in literature, developing the field of zoopoetics research. Her publications include Une bête entre les lignes. Essai de zoopoétique (Marseille, Wildproject, 2021). She is in charge of the 'Animots' research programme, funded by the ANR between 2010 and 2014 and now supported by the République des savoirs unit (CNRS/ENS/Collège de France - PSL).

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) “‘Animality runs right through the human being’. Interview with Anne Simon”, RELIEF - REVUE ÉLECTRONIQUE DE LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE, 18(1), pp. 27–43. doi:10.51777/relief19414.