François Gavillon

François Gavillon is a Lecturer at the University of Western Brittany (Université de Bretagne Occidentale), affiliated with the Heritage and Creation in Text and Image (EA 4249) research unit. His academic work focuses on American literature and ecocriticism, bridging literary analysis with environmental humanities. He teaches English literature, American civilization, and translation at both undergraduate and graduate levels, while also preparing students for the CAPES and Agrégation exams in French academia.

• Doctorate in English and Anglo-Saxon Languages and Literatures (Section 11)
• Holds the English Agrégation

His research centers on American ecocriticism, examining intersections between environmental ethics, magical realism, and post-apocalyptic narratives. His publications analyze Cormac McCarthy's works, Rick Bass's wilderness writing, and Linda Hogan's ecological perspectives, emphasizing the role of literature in understanding environmental crises.

Recent scholarly output reveals strong engagement with environmental ethics, apocalyptic literature, and borderland ecocriticism. Thematic clusters include:

• Environmental decline in cinematic adaptations
• Human resilience in dystopian scenarios
• Interspecies storytelling
• Indigenous ecological perspectives
• Transcendentalist wilderness concepts
• Borderland ambiguities