Marion Krauthaker

Marion Krauthaker (marion.krauthaker@universityofgalway.ie) is a Lecturer Above the Bar at the university of Galway (Ireland). She originally specialised on representations of gender and sexuality as well as mechanisms of power and marginalisation in French literature and culture, especially women’s writings. Her more recent work has turned towards less known and neglected female rural writers from the Cantal area. With the support of a British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Grant, she has carried out a project entitled ‘Reclaiming ‘Secondary Zone’ Female Voices towards a Remapping of Literary France’. She has recently published further articles looking at the representations of rurality and rural femininity and his currently preparing a monograph on ecofeminism in the works of these writers.

Environmental Crisis and Activism in Contemporary French Poetry

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These PPTs (in English) are used for two 2-hour sessions as part of a team-taught module called the Art of Reading which is taught in the MA in International Contemporary Literature and Media. This section explores how contemporary French poetry engages with the environmental crisis, using language to challenge dominant discourses. Students conduct close readings […]

French Ecopoetry – French Undergraduate Class

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This PPT (in French) is used in week 8 of the module French Poetry: From Romanticism to Slam (BA French, Year 2), a class which focuses on eco-poetry, drawing connections between 19th-century representations of nature and contemporary poetic responses to the climate crisis. This module introduces key movements—romanticism, symbolism, surrealism, Oulipo, eco-poetry, and slam—exploring how […]