Clémence Laburthe-Tolra

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Affiliations actuelles
  • Etudes montpelliéraines du monde anglophone (EMMA)
  • Histoire culturelle et sociale de l'art (HiCSA)

Présentation

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra is Associate Professor in English studies and Art History at Université Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne, member of the HiCSA at Université Paris 1- Panthéon Sorbonne, and associate member of the EMMA research team at University Paul-Valéry Montpellier.

Her research specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, garden history, plant studies, and landscape design. She has published on the aesthetic, social, and political representation(s) of gardens and landscapes in 20th-century British literature as well as on the ecological and environmental implications of von Arnim, Sackville-West, and Macaulay’s horticultural and literary works.

She is currently working on two projects, investigating the democratisation of gardening in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Great Britain, and exploring post-war urban ecology, garden design and floral art in the aftermath of the Blitz.

Publications

Publications

Vita Sackville-West’s Easter Party (1953): Navigating Social Changes, Gesturing towards New Garden Aesthetics, and Calling for Renewed Agency in the Garden?

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Congrès de la SAES 2025, Atelier SAIT, Jun 2025, Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-05109453 v1

The (Democratic) Art of Arranging Flowers in the 20th century: from Constance Spry’s Interior Design to Sackville-West’s Gardening

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Book of Nature/Nature of Books. Practices of Female Botanists, Université Bourgogne Europe, Jun 2025, Dijon, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-05123767 v1

Reconstruire au sortir du Blitz. La patrimonialisation du paysage urbain au prisme de l'écologie, de la littérature et de l'urbanisme d'après-guerre

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Séminaire du CIRPaLL, CIRPaLL, Jan 2025, Angers (France), France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04895770 v1

La patrimonialisation du paysage britannique au sortir du Blitz. Composer avec les plantes obsidionales

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Séminaire Architecture et Milieux naturels, Jean-Philippe Garric; Eléonore Marantz; Ronan Bouttier; Jean-François Cabestan, Dec 2025, Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / Centre de recherche HiCSA, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-05427877 v1

Resonance

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
France-Berkeley Workshop “Literature and Forms of Knowledge across the Long Nineteenth Century", Ian Duncan; Christine Reynier, Apr 2024, Berkeley (California), United States
Communication dans un congrès hal-04949107 v1

From Austerity to Ecology: Sackville-West Rooting for the Conservation of Rural Landscapes in her Wartime Essays

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
ESSE Congress 2024, seminar on Transformations of the Environment in Victorian, Edwardian and Modernist Essays, Dominika Buchowska-Greaves; Bénédicte Coste; Christine Reynier;, Aug 2024, Lausanne, Switzerland
Communication dans un congrès hal-04708479 v1

Breaking New Grounds: Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries

Aurélien Wasilewski , Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Breaking New Grounds Democratising Gardens and Gardening in Great Britain, 19th-20th centuries, Sep 2024, Montpellier, France. ⟨10.58079/127qu⟩
Communication dans un congrès hal-05378016 v1

Victorian Women and the Garden Book: Embracing Ignorance to Circulate Knowledge and Claim Authorship in Gendered Botanical Spheres

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
France-Berkeley Workshop “Literature and Forms of Knowledge across the Long Nineteenth Century", Ian Duncan; Christine Reynier, Apr 2024, Berkeley (California), United States
Communication dans un congrès hal-04949112 v1

Les jardins publics londoniens au sortir du Blitz : de la commémoration de l'effort de guerre au développement de l'écologie urbaine

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Au bon air des jardins, Alexis Metzger; Zoé Ginter, Oct 2024, Blois, École de la nature et du paysage, INSA CVL, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04745043 v1

Consideration

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
France-Berkeley Workshop “Literature and Forms of Knowledge across the Long Nineteenth Century", Ian Duncan; Christine Reynier, Nov 2024, Montpellier, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04949098 v1

Ecologies of Differences in Rose Macaulay’s Expression of the ‘London Jungle’ in The World My Wilderness (1950)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
The agency of plants in the literature and the arts of the French- and English-speaking worlds, LARCA Université Paris Cité et Institut Catholique de Paris, Jun 2023, Paris, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388279 v1

Rose Macaulay’s “On the Land, 1916”: the land-girl experience as anti-pastoral

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Journée d'Études From cottagecore to solarpunk: politics and aesthetics of contemporary pastorals, Constance Pompié; Théo Maligeay, Nov 2023, Montpellier (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III), France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388364 v1

Vita Sackville-West’s Botanical Transmissions in the Observer: from Flowery Words of Advice to Rhizomatic Networks

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Congrès SAES "Transmissions", SAES, Jun 2023, Rennes - Université Rennes 2, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388196 v1

Lire le paysage du Kent pour Vita Sackville-West : du cadrage au décentrement

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Journée d'étude Lire le paysage: perception, interprétation, appropriation, Ecole Doctorale Montaigne Humanités, Feb 2023, Bordeaux : Université Bordeaux 3 Michel de Montaigne, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388272 v1

Overcoming the Alienation and Displacement of the Female Body Transplanted from England to Prussia: a Phenomenological Reading of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Pastor’s Wife (1914)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
The Traveller's Body in the Literature, Civilisation and the Arts of the English-Speaking World, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Oct 2023, Pau, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388297 v1

‘Indescribable’ yet vibrant matters: Sackville-West’s ethics of plants in Some Flowers and In your Garden, Modernism and Matter

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Modernism and Matter, Atelier exploratoire, EMMA (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3) en collaboration avec le CIRPaLL (Université d’Angers), Oct 2022, Montpellier, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388252 v1

Vita Sackville-West’s real-life and literary gardens

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Literature and Botany International Conference, University of Warsaw; the Institute of Modern languages, Pedagogical University of Krakow, the Institute of German Studies, University of Warsaw and the Botanical Garden of Warsaw, in collaboration with Department of English, University of California Los Angeles, Institut Für Medienkul Turwissenschaft, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitât Freiburg, Litlinal Research Group, Departamento de Filologia Inglesa y Alemana, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, May 2022, En ligne, Poland
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388236 v1

Fractured Landscape, Divided society, Split selves – the Blitzed London as ‘Third landscape’ in Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1951)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Congrès de la SAES, Jun 2022, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04949128 v1

Designing, Plotting and Seeding Botanical Matters. Elizabeth von Arnim's, Vita Sackville-West's and Rose Macaulay's Green Sensibilities: from Literature to Botany, or Vice Versa?

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Journée Des Doctorants EMMA, EMMA, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Jun 2022, Montpellier, France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388244 v1

From the Maquis to the Blitzscape : Plotting War Landscapes in Rose Macaulay’s The World my Wilderness

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Guerre et Nature: traces, interactions et reconfigurations dans les littératures anglophones des XIXe, XXe et XXIe siècles, Oct 2021, Montpellier (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III), France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04388213 v1

From Elizabeth von Arnim’s Walled-in Garden to Vita Sackville-West Arts and Crafts Garden: Rooting the Self in the Garden ?

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Cadres et espaces dans le monde anglophone. Stratégies d’appropriation et d’affranchissement., UR SEARCH 2325, Oct 2021, Strasbourg (Université), France
Communication dans un congrès hal-04949126 v1

Nan Shepherd going into the Mountains

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
A Space of their Own: Women and Place, 1850-1950, Katie Baker; Naomi Walker, Jun 2019, University of Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Communication dans un congrès hal-04956120 v1

Vita Sackville-West's Real-Life and Literary Gardens

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec; Paweł Piszczatowski; Tomasz Szybisty; Justyna Włodarczyk. Literature and Botany, 6, V&R unipress, pp.139-156, 2025, Culture - Environment - Society - Humanities and beyond
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05240819 v1

Crying out for "Space, Freedom, Quiet": a Phenomenological Reading of Elizabeth von Arnim's The Pastor's Wife (1914)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Françoise Buisson; Fabienne Gaspari. The Traveller's Body in the Literature, Civilisation and Cultures of the English-Speaking World, Espaces, Frontières, Métissages (24), Presses Universitaires de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, pp.147-160, 2025
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05318594 v1

‘Indescribable’ yet Vibrant Matters. Sackville-West’s Plant Ethics in Some Flowers (1937) and In your Garden (1951)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Xavier Le Brun; Christine Reynier. Modernism and Matter. Literature in Quest of a ‘new assembly of elements’ (1907-1941), Horizons anglophones - Série Present Perfect, Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, pp.189-206, 2025, 978-2-36781-521-3
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-05293189 v1

Plotting the Blitzscape: from Representation to Composition in Rose Macaulay’s The World My Wilderness (1950)

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra
Sylvain Belluc; Isabelle Brasme; Guillaume Tanguy. The Ecopoetics of War, Routledge, 2024
Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-04915530 v1