“Made in France, Grown in America: Surrealist Posthumanism’s Transatlantic Dialogue” Gina Stamm
About the Event
For this year’s French Lecture Series, Gina Stamm, Ph.D. will present a portion of their forthcoming book, "Posthumanist Ecology in Global French Surrealism" (Northwestern University Press 2027). This monograph examines the relationship between the human and nonhuman in the work of French poets René Char and Francis Ponge, the Martinican Tropiques group, Mauritian Malcolm de Chazal, and Franco-Swedish painter and poet Greta Knutson.
Gina Stamm, Ph.D. is an associate professor of French at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, with research focusing on ecology and gender in 20th and 21st-century speculative literatures of France and the Francophone Caribbean, from Surrealism to contemporary science fiction. Their monograph, "Posthumanist Ecology in Global French Surrealism," is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2027. In addition to authoring scholarly articles and book chapters on themes including ecopoetics, queer ecology, and materialist feminism, they also co-edited the 2025 special issue of "Women in French Studies" on the theme "Precarious Lives/Vies Précaires" and translated the novels "Songes de Mevlido/Mevlido's Dreams" (2024) and "Le Port intérieur/The Inner Harbour" (2025) by speculative writer Antoine Volodine for University of Minnesota Press. Stamm is also a regular podcast host on the New Books Network.