Gina Stamm

Gina Stamm is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Alabama, Department of Modern Languages & Classics. Her work bridges environmental humanities, speculative literature, and queer/feminist theory, focusing on 20th-21st century French and francophone Caribbean literature.

• PhD in French, Emory University (2016), with certificates in Psychoanalytic Studies and Comparative Literature
• MA in French, Miami University (2010)

Stamm specializes in ecocritical analysis, examining how surrealism, feminist utopias, and post-exotic literature engage with ecological crises. Her research spans topics like queer ecology, vegetal transhumanism, and postcolonial environmental trauma, often through interdisciplinary lenses combining psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory.

Recent publications explore intersections of racial capitalism, intergenerational trauma, and botanical agency in francophone Caribbean contexts. She actively translates works like Antoine Volodine's Songes de Mevlido and participates in podcasts such as ASLE EcoCast, discussing plant-oriented critical theory and speculative narratives.

Her scholarship contributes to evolving frameworks in ecopoetics, nonhuman subjectivity, and decolonial environmentalism, with affiliations to academic institutions in France and the Caribbean.