Sea More Blue: Toward Blue Ecopoetics. An Introduction

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https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.1.6138

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Introduction to the Special Focus Section "Sea More Blue"

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Bénédicte Meillon, Université d'Angers, France

Béné Meillon is Professeure des Universités affiliated with the 3 L.AM at the Université d’Angers. She led the ecopoetics research group OIKOS at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia from 2015 to 2023 and has created an Internet platform dedicated to ecopoetics and ecocriticism in France (https://ecopoetique.hypotheses.org). She is President of EASLCE and leader of the Sea More Blue research group— invoving a cross-disciplinary research program dealing with blue ecopoetics and humanities, which was launched in 2022 from UPVD and is now based at the Université d'Angers. Initially a short story specialist, her research specifically explores ecocritical readings and the notion of reenchantment, focusing on magical realism and “liminal realism,” mythopoeia, and ecofeminism, while paying close attention to the ecopoetic intra-actions between nature and the texture of language itself. She has published papers dealing with ecocritical and ecopoetic readings of environmental fiction by Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Proulx, Linda Hogan, Ann Pancake, Ron Rash, Anne Sibran, as well as on contemporary dance performances choreographed by Maguy Marin. She has also written papers on fiction by Russell Banks, Roald Dahl, and Paul Auster. Her monograph Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth, published by Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield, came out in 2022. She has been engaged in various creative projects mobilizing arts and performance as a way to restore ecological attention. She has co-organized 3 international conferences in ecocriticism and ecopoetics as well as the 10th EASLCE symposium held in Perpignan in 2024. She had co-edited, with Margot Lauwers, a special issue of Crossways Journal: Lieux d’enchantement: approches écocritiques et écopoét(h)iques des liens entre humains et non-humains (2018). She has directed a volume on Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth (Lexington Books, 2020), and has also co-edited two transdisciplinary issues of the online Journal Textes & Contextes on the reenchantment of urban wildness: the first, with Rachel Bouvet and Marie-Pierre Ramouche, dealing with eco- and geo-poetic approaches (16.1, June 2021) and the second, codirected with Sylvain Rode and Hélène Schmutz, with contributions in the Ecological Humanities (16.2, Nov. 2021). She has moreover co-edited a volume in French, with Pascale Amiot and Davide Vago, Biodiversité : Enjeux écopoétiques, with Pascale Amiot and Davide Vago, published at the University Press of the Catholic University in Milan, in Italy, in 2023.

Bertrand Guest, University of Angers

Bertrand Guest is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Angers (3LAM, and an associate of Fablitt, Paris 8). Author of Révolutions dans le cosmos. Essais de libération géographique : Humboldt, Thoreau, Reclus (2017), he co-edited with Fabien Colombo and Nestor Engone Elloué the special issue “Écologie & Humanités,” of Essais, 13, 2018, and issue 25, 2024, “Généalogies de la Nature,” of Épistémocritique, with Laurence Dahan-Gaida. Based on an ecocritical analysis of the relationships between knowledge, politics, and literature, focusing on the essay from the 19th century to the present, he works to combine ecocriticism and queer perspectives.

Marie-Pierre Ramouche, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia

Marie Pierre Ramouche is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia and a member of the CRESEM research laboratory. Through the lens of ecocriticism, she studies representations of the living world in the cinema of the Spanish-speaking world, with a particular focus on Latin America. Author of several papers on the subject, she also edited Enchantement et réenchantement des rapports entre humains et non-humains dans le monde hispanophone, Líneas, nº13, 2021, and Réenchanter le Sauvage urbain, percevoir, penser et vivre avec la nature en ville, Textes et Contextes, 16-1, 2021, with Béné Meillon et Rachel Bouvet. In 2024, she co-organized the 10th Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment (EASLCE) in Perpignan.

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2026-04-30

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2026): Sea More Blue

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Articles: Sea More Blue

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