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About Gina Stamm
I am Associate Professor of French at The University of Alabama, having earned a PhD in French with certificates in psychoanalytic studies and comparative literature from Emory University in 2016. My research is concentrated on the environmental humanities and speculative literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Surrealism to contemporary science fiction and feminist utopias, in Metropolitan France and the francophone Caribbean. I have published articles on all of these topics in journals including Yale French Studies, L'Esprit Créateur, Ecozon@, and French Forum, as well as several chapters in edited volumes and two translations of novels by speculative fiction author Antoine Volodine: Mevlido's Dreams (2024) and The Inner Harbour (2025), with a book manuscript in progress on posthumanist ecological engagement in the surrealist movement.
NBN Episodes hosted by Gina:
March 9, 2026
Reproductive Rights in Modern France
The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by …
March 4, 2026
Decolonial Care
Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean (Rutgers UP, 2025) examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and t…
February 24, 2026
Grrrl Writing
When Virginie Despentes (1969) published her provocative debut novel Baise-moi in 1994, no one could have anticipated how she would gradually become a…
February 4, 2026
Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing
Animal Rhetoric and Natural Science in Eighteenth-century Liberal Political Writing: Political Zoologies of the French Enlightenment (Routledge, 2024)…
February 3, 2026
Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities
Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements in Francophone Settings (Liverpool UP, 2025) bridges the gap between the Carib…
January 2, 2026
Commemorative Acts
Drawing on memory studies and theatrical history, Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War (University of Toronto Press, 202…
December 14, 2025
The Politics of Play
Showing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors approached writing ludically, placing rules and condi…
December 6, 2025
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism
What good is aesthetics in a time of ecological crisis? Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Early Modern France (N…
November 7, 2025
Gender by the Book
Gender by the Book: 21st-Century French Children's Literature (Routledge, 2025) investigates the gender representations that French children's literat…
October 22, 2025
Beyond the Happy Ending
In Kathryn Robson's Beyond the Happy Ending: Imagining Happiness in Contemporary French Women's Writing and Film (Liverpool UP, 2025), happiness (and …
October 13, 2025
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, wh…
October 3, 2025
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power (The Ohio State UP, 2025) is the first book-length study in English about Black francophone cartooni…
September 26, 2025
La Pensée Wittig
How is it possible to be a subject when faced with oppression? The revolutionary thought and work of French novelist and lesbian thinker Monique Witti…
September 5, 2025
Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth (Bloomsbury, 2022) tackles the reenchantment process at work in a part of …