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Gina Stamm

Associate Professor of French

  • email: gmstamm@ua.edu
  • phone (205) 348-5059
  • office location BB Comer Hall 216

Education

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

Bio

Dr. Stamm’s research focuses on 20th and 21st century French and Caribbean literature, specifically questions of embodiment and the environment; environmental humanities; ecocriticism; and psychoanalysis.

 

Selected Publications

“Material Ecocriticism: Reading the Nonhuman World.” Forthcoming in ECO-CONCEPTS: Critical Reflexions in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought. Eds. Cenk Tan, İsmail Serdar Altaç. Lexington Books Spring 2024.

“Francophone Ecopoetics.” Forthcoming in The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. Ed. Julia Fiedorczuk et al. Routledge Fall 2023.

Mevlido’s Dreams. Translation of Antoine Volodine’s novel Songes de Mevlido. Forthcoming Spring 2023 from Univocal, University of Minnesota Press.

“’I know of no diaries or histories’: The Forgotten African-Americans on the Front Lines of World War I” in Questions de communication vol.2 n° 42, 2022, pp 455 à 467

“Le Corps lesbien: Materiality without Abjection.” Forthcoming from Yale French Studies Spring 2022.

“Reconstituer le corps d’Eurydice: Le mythe d’Orphée chez Monique Wittig” in Corps et Mythes : (In)Visibilisations du Féminin. Ed. Metka Zupancik and Brigitte Le Juez       Brill, 2021.

“Animal Végétal: Plants and Transhumanism in Contemporary French Literature.” French Forum. Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2021, pp. 69-82.

“Nature Writing as a Frontier of 20th-Century Poetics.” Sites: 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies, vol. 25:2, June 2021, p 163-171.

“La Ville suffisamment bonne: Aimer la ville sans pitié” in Ces lieux qui nous affectent: Production de sens, enjeu de connaissance, dimension opératoire. Ed. Georges-Henry Laffont and Denis Martouzet. February 2021.

“Cannibal Plants: Tropiques and Martinican Aesthetics.” Women in French Studies, vol. 27, 2019, p. 131-142.

“For a Literature of Déracinement” Revue critique de fixxion française, No. 19 “Fictions ‘Françaises,’” 2019, p. 27-36. 

“Inventing a Vegetal Post-Exotic in the Work of Antoine Volodine.” Ecozon@:European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment, Vol 10 No 2 (2019) special issue:       “Ecological n(ter)ventions in the Francophone World,” p.42-57

“Postpastoral and the Nonmodern: Jean Giono’s Engagement with Nature.” Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature Vol. 43: Iss. 1, Article 6.; special issue “Engaging the Pastoral: Social, Environmental, and Artistic Critique,” December 2018.

“Embodiment and Aging in Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein.” Mosaic 51.2, June 2018.