Still Looking for the Sublime: Science, Arts, and Spirituality in the Era of Emotionally Overwhelming Environmental Disr...
peer reviewed
Exploring the Sublime in the Contemporary American Memoir: Thoreau’s Legacy and the Case of Native Alaska
Invited lecture, invited by: The University of Texas at Austin, Department of English (Hannah C. Wojciehowski and Anna Schwartz) / status: published
Writing the Wilderness in the Anthropocene: Thoreau’s Legacy and the Contemporary American Eco-Memoir
4. Quality education / 13. Climate action
Aux origines du nature writing : découvrir, écrire & penser la wilderness américaine aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
status: Published online
Aux origines du nature writing : découvrir, écrire & penser la wilderness américaine aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
peer reviewed / Comme l’avait souligné Pierre Schoentjes en 2015 dans son Essai d’écopoétique, l’ecocriticism, ou « l’étude de la littérature dans ses rapports avec l’environnement naturel », tire ses racines aux États-Unis, là où le peuple Américain profitait déjà d’une abondance d’œuvres de nature writing et d’un paysage naturel éblouissant qui a...
Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
peer reviewed
Henry D. Thoreau : La désobéissance civile & Frédéric Gros : Désobéir
Henry D. Thoreau : La désobéissance civile & Frédéric Gros : Désobéir
Popularized text published online (on the website of the University of Liège). / status: Published online
Comparing fruiting phenology across two historical datasets: Thoreau’s observations and herbarium specimens
Published in Annals of Botany
Background and Aims Fruiting remains under-represented in long-term phenology records, relative to leaf and flower phenology. Herbarium specimens and historical field notes can fill this gap, but selecting and synthesizing these records for modern-day comparison requires an understanding of whether different historical data sources contain similar ...
Between Self-Reliance and Responsibility: Rereading the Emersonian Sublime in an Age of Crisis
What if the Emersonian Sublime was still an invitation? I want to believe that the Emersonian Sublime is more than a plea for self-reliance. It is an uplifting call to reexplore our inner self and to develop a genuine sense of broader responsibility toward nonhumans and humans alike. In the light of the global ecological crisis and pandemic, the Em...
