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Stephanie Posthumus serves as Associate Professor at McGill University, specializing in contemporary French and Québécois literature through the lens of ecocriticism, animal studies, and plant studies. Her research interrogates representations of the non-human across European literary traditions while examining cultural specificities in environmental discourse.
Professor Posthumus develops French-specific ecocritical frameworks by engaging with thinkers like Guattari (écosophie), Latour (nature-culture), and Serres (contrat naturel), arguing against universal ecocritical models. Her work spans three interconnected domains: constructing French ecocriticism through monographs like French Écocritique (2017); analyzing animal representations via co-edited volumes including French Thinking about Animals (2015); and pioneering plant studies in Québécois contexts through recent works like Entre les feuilles (2024). She further bridges digital and environmental humanities through SSHRC-funded platform development.
Her publication trajectory (2016-2024) reveals intensifying focus on vegetal agency and digital methodologies within ecocritical practice. Articles consistently address cultural differences in environmental representation, with increasing attention to sensory plant studies and posthumanist reconfigurations of human/non-human boundaries across French and Québécois literary landscapes.
Professor Posthumus leads the Digital Environmental Humanities initiative, which functions as a research hub featuring digital exhibits, analytical tools like topic modeling, and pedagogical resources. This SSHRC Connections grant project (2013) exemplifies her commitment to interdisciplinary knowledge mobilization through digital innovation.
She currently directs collaborative research networks connecting Canadian environmental humanities scholars with digital humanities practitioners, fostering experimental approaches to ecological representation through multimodal projects examining plant intelligence and sensory environmental engagement.
