Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

Abigail Culpepper is a doctoral candidate in the Department of French and Francophone Studies. With an attention to textuality, their research focuses on problems of reading ecocritically and questions of literary scale. Informed by eco-deconstruction and new materialism, her dissertation project reads figures of sessility in modernist poetry from the French and Francophone world arguing for reading as a mode of environmental engagement. A recent article published in Derrida Today considers the stakes of textual and biological decomposition.