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Göran Magnus Blix is a Professor of French and Italian and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University. His research bridges nineteenth-century French literature with contemporary environmental humanities, focusing on ecocriticism, animal studies, and the politics of the novel.
Current projects include:
- The Heroism of Modern Life: Examines democratization’s impact on heroic archetypes in French literature.
- Ecoapathy and Biophilia: Traces the genealogy of nature sentiment from Rousseau to Reclus.
- Thinking With Animals: Explores posthuman fables post-Darwin.
- Coal Culture and Fossil Fiction: Documents coal’s cultural impact in late-nineteenth-century literature.
His teaching spans topics like the nineteenth-century novel, environmental disaster, and socially marginal figures. Key research areas include romanticism, realism, literary aesthetics, and the historical imagination.
Articles highlight his interdisciplinary focus, spanning instinct-intelligence debates, Flaubert’s animal imagery, Balzac’s occult realism, and eco-allegories in Leconte de Lisle. His 2008 book From Paris to Pompeii analyzes archaeology’s influence on secular death attitudes.
