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

Plants as Archives. An Ecocritical Attempt to Unearth Botanical Hi(stories) of the Long 19th Century

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra

The Histories and Lives of Literatures: New Theoretical Approaches, Annabel Barry; Lucas Cantinelli; Kevin Cristin; Marie-Gaëlle Drouet; Léa Fourure; Nathalie Vanfasse; Christine Reynier; Ian Duncan, Mar 2026, AMU (Aix-en-Provence), France

Communication dans un congrès hal-05568579v1

Représenter la flore dans la littérature britannique du XIXème siècle : du langage des fleurs à la reconnaissance de l’agentivité

Clémence Laburthe-Tolra

Séminaire Studio Écocritique XIX x INHA Lab : Extractions minérales, végétales et animales, Aliénor Bautru-Valois; Joy Cador; Marie Clemenceau; Violaine Gourbet; Stella Granier; Romain Mainieri, Mar 2026, INHA, Paris, France

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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-05109453v1

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

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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

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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

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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

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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⟩

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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

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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

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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

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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-04949098v1

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

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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

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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

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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

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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-04388279v1

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-04388236v1

‘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

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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

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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

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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

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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-04949126v1

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

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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

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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-05318594v1

‘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

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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

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