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Claire Omhovère
Claire Omhovère
Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3
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Presentation
**Claire Omhovère is a Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at University Paul Valéry – Montpellier (France)** where she is affiliated to the research group EMMA (Etudes Montpellieraines du Monde Anglophone). She is a former president of the French Association for the Study of the Commonwealth (SEPC) and, until recently, she was the general editor of *Commonwealth Essays & Studies*. Her research is broadly concerned with perceptions and representations of space in postcolonial literatures with a specific interest in the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of landscape writing in settler-invader colonies such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The author of several articles, her publications include *Sensing Space: The Poetics of Geography in Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction*(Peter Lang, 2007) and the edited collection *L’Art du paysage*(Michel Houdiard, 2014) which gathers the translations into French and critical presentations of a wide selection of essays on landscape from the English-speaking world.
**Claire Omhovère enseigne les littératures des pays du Commonwealth à l’Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3**. Aujourd’hui présidente honoraire de la Société d’Étude des Pays du Commonwealth, elle a présidé la SEPC et dirigé la revue *Commonwealth Essays & Studies*de 2011 à 2017. Sa recherche porte sur l’écriture paysagère dans les littératures des anciennes colonies de l’Empire britannique, notamment le Canada. Elle est l’auteur de *Sensing Space: The Poetics of Geography in Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction*(Peter Lang, 2007). Elle a coordonné plusieurs ouvrages collectifs dont le plus récent (*L’Art du paysage*chez Michel Houdiard, 2014) rassemble la traduction et la présentation critique d’une sélection d’essais sur les enjeux du paysage dans le monde anglophone.
**Claire Omhovère enseigne les littératures des pays du Commonwealth à l’Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3**. Aujourd’hui présidente honoraire de la Société d’Étude des Pays du Commonwealth, elle a présidé la SEPC et dirigé la revue *Commonwealth Essays & Studies*de 2011 à 2017. Sa recherche porte sur l’écriture paysagère dans les littératures des anciennes colonies de l’Empire britannique, notamment le Canada. Elle est l’auteur de *Sensing Space: The Poetics of Geography in Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction*(Peter Lang, 2007). Elle a coordonné plusieurs ouvrages collectifs dont le plus récent (*L’Art du paysage*chez Michel Houdiard, 2014) rassemble la traduction et la présentation critique d’une sélection d’essais sur les enjeux du paysage dans le monde anglophone.
Research domains
Humanities and Social Sciences
Literature
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(What) Can Aboriginal Peoples Teach us about Survival in Times of Climate Change?Journée EMMAncipons les savoirs: diffusion de la recherche, Laboratoire EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry), Apr 2024, Montpellier, France
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The Trouble with Landscape: Reappraisals of the Eyesore in Recent Canadian Writing and Visual ArtEACLALS Triennial Conference: “Imagining Environmental Justice in a Postcolonial World”, Christine Lorre, Jun 2023, Paris Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
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‘Declarations of Interdependence’: Aesthetic Responses to Contamination in Contemporary Canadian Literature and ArtThe Aesthetics of Contamination: Oceanic Environments, Identities, Intermedial Research Creation, André Dodeman, Lisa Moore, Nancy Pedri, Oct 2023, St John's ( Newfoundland and Labrador ), Canada
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"Following Martin Kuester across Borders: Teaching the Canadian Literatures in French Universities."Journeys across B/Orders in Canadian Studies, Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies, Jun 2022, Marburg, Germany
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“The Residual Landscape in Three Canadian Petrofictions of the Harper Decade.”Uncertain Landscapes of the Anthropocene, Hélène Ibata et Monica Manolescu, Oct 2022, Strasbourg, France
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Does Canadian Literature Need an Ethic of Discomfort? A Few Preliminary (and Cautious) StepsWebinaire CECILLE (ULR 4074), Fiona McMahon, Mar 2021, Lille (journée d’étude en ligne), France
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Sharing the Experience of Editing Commonwealth Essays & Studies (2010-2016)Name of a Discipline, Société d'Etudes Postcoloniales (SEPC), Jan 2021, Orléans ( visioconférence), France
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« Reading Amitav Ghosh on a Tour of Canada’s Petroscapes ».Contemporary Trends in Postcolonialism. Theory and Praxis. International Web-lecture Series, Sharbani Mukherjee, Oct 2020, Triveni Devi Bhalotia College and Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya (online), India
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Guests, Hosts and ParasitesHospitalities, Hostilities : Narratives and Representations, Marie Mianowski, Nov 2020, Grenoble (Campus), France
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“Living in ‘the Dish With One Spoon’: Transdescendence and Convivance in Daniel Coleman’s Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place.”Séminaire SEARCH, Hélène Ibata et Monica Manolescu, Feb 2020, Strasbourg (Université), France
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Faire Commun - SéminaireSéminaire EMMA thème Le Commun, Jan 2020, Montpellier (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier), France
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Entre le vide et le plein : l’écriture du lieu dans The Place of Scraps de Jordan AbelSéminaire LCE, Université Lumière Lyon 2, Pascale Tollance, May 2019, Lyon (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), France
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Discovering / Recovering / Uncovering Heritage: Abel Jordan’s Art of SubtractionDissensus in the Postcolonial Anglophone World: History, Politics, Aesthetics, Société d'Etudes Postcoloniales, Feb 2019, Lille (Université Lille 3), France
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“Learning from the “Dish With One Spoon”Echoing Ecologies, Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies, May 2019, Marburg / Lahn, Germany
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"Cet ici qui est ailleurs": de l’usage du dépaysement dans You Are Not Needed Now d’Annette Lapointe« Le Dépaysement », Laboratoire LCE (Université Lyon 2), Nov 2019, Lyon (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme), France
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Paysages en voie d'eux mêmes : la photographie d'Iain BaxterJournée d'étude Paysages créés, paysages créateurs: Penser les paysages avec Henri Maldiney, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, 21 octobre 2016, 2018, Dijon, France. pp.45-57
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Jeff Wall’s ‘defeatured landscapes’Colloque Suburbia. Université Jean Jaurès-Toulouse 2, 16-17 novembre 2017., 2017, Toulouse, France
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‘Art is all over’Colloque Space, Place, Hybridity. Université Grenoble Alpes, 22-24 novembre 2017., 2017, Grenoble, France
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Landscape ManualsMikinaakominis / TransCanada Conference 4. Literature, Justice, Relation. Université de Toronto, 24-27 mai 2017, 2017, Toronto, Canada
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Lyme Regis RevisitedColloque "Landscape / Cityscape : Writing / Painting / Imagining Situational Identity in British Literature and Visual Arts (18th-21st centuries)", SEAC-SAIT, 19-21 octobre 2017, 2017, Londres, United Kingdom
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The Wawanash Connection: Rivers and Other Semiotic Systems in Alice Munro's Short FictionCongrès de la SAES, Confluences, Université de Lyon 3, 2-4 juin 2016, 2016, Lyon, France
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Teaching the Contemporary Short Story in English: Alice Munro in the Classroom.Modern Reasearch in the Sphere of Socio-Humanitatrian Sciences and Innovative Technologies, University of Semey, 27-28 April 2016, 2016, Semey, Kazakhstan
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Some Reflections on Landscape Writing in Anita Desai's "Fire on the Mountain""Literature and Geography: The Writing of Space throughout History", Université Lyon 3, 12-13 mars 2015, 2015, Lyon, France
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Beyond Pluto’s Cave : Unscripted Spaces in Alice Munro’s "Images"Journées d’étude "Alice Munro "Dance of the Happy Shades", Alice Munro's eerie land", 10-11 avril 2015, Paris Ouest Nanterre et Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2015, Paris, France
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Crossing into the Unimagined: The Translation of the Landscape Tradition in English Canada54e Congrès de la SAES, Université de Caen-Basse Normandie, 16-18 mai 2014, 2014, Caen, France
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Places in Alice Munro's "Dance of the Happy Shades"The Inside of a Shell: Alice Munro's "Dance of the Happy Shades", École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 6-7 novembre 2014, 2014, Lyon, France
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A Topography of the Void in Miriam Toews's A Complicated Kindness (2004)Colloque "Place and RePlace", University of Winnipeg (Canada), 16-19 sept 2010, 2010, Winnipeg, Canada
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Sensing Space"Literary Geographies : a multidisciplinary conference", The University of Nottingham, July 20-22, 2007, 2007, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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Motion and Emotion in Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter than All the World (2001)Conférence à l'intention de l'école doctorale du département d'anglais de l'Université de Stockholm, 20 septembre 2005, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden
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Passage in Robert Kroetsch's FictionConférence à l'intention de l'école doctorale du département d'anglais de l'Université de Stockholm, 21 septembre 2005, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden
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The Geographical Imagination in English-Canadian WritingConférence à l'intention de l'école doctorale du département d'anglais de l'Université de Stockholm, 19 septembre 2005, 2005, Stockholm, Sweden
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L'Art du paysageClaire Omhovère. Michel Houdiard, Volume VII, 249 p., 2014
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The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American ContextsCambridge Scholars Publishing, 369 p., 2014
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Perceptions et représentations de l'espace dans le monde anglophonePresses universitaires de Nancy, 230 p., 2011
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Perspectives environnementales au Canada : l'écologie dans tous ses étatsHéritier; Stéphane; Michèle Kaltemback; Claire Omhovère; et Marcienne Rocard; dirs. Editions universitaires du sud, pp.1-245, 2010
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Perspectives environnementales au Canada : l'écologie dans tous ses étatsStéphane Héritier, M. Kaltemback, C. Omhovere, M. Rocard. Editions Universitaire du Sud, 180 p., 2009
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L'interdisciplinarité en question dans les études anglophonesPresses universitaires de Nancy, 213 p., 2009
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Sensing SpacePeter Lang, 186 p., 2007
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Ancrages/PassagesPresses universitaires de Nancy, 2006, Regards croisés sur le monde anglophone, 978-2-86480-927-2
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Ancrages-passagesPresses universitaires de Nancy, 254 p., 2006
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Stories in the Landscape Mode: A Reading of Alice Munro's “Lives of Girls and Women,” “Walker Brothers Cowboy,” and “Lichen”Christine Lorre and Eleonora Rao. Space and place in Alice Munro's fiction : a book with maps in it, Camden house, pp.82-99, 2018
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Canadian Photography and the Exhaustion of LandscapeMelissa Tanti et al. Beyond "Understanding Canada" : Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature, The University of Alberta Press, pp.131-150, 2017
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« Landscapes in Transit: The Displacement of the Western Landscape Tradition in English Canada. »Florence Labaune-Demeule. Authority and Displacement in the English-Speaking World ? Exploring American Shores, Vol 2, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, pp.93-115, 2015
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"For there is no easy way to get to Jubilee from anywhere on earth": Places in Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades. »Guignery; Vanessa. The Inside of a Shell: Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.26-45, 2015
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Profils urbains et territoires littéraires au Canada anglophoneAndré Dodeman et Cyril Besson. Ville et environnement: regards croisés sur le monde postcolonial., Michel Houdiard éditeur, pp.17-34, 2014
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Quelques reconfigurations urbaines du "Wilderness" dans la fiction canadienne anglophone des années 1990-2000L.S. Fournier; C. Chastagner; C. Bernié-Boissrd; et D. Crozat. Les Cultures du déplacement, Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, pp.79-91, 2014
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Documenting Disappearance’: A Century of Canadian Photography, from William McFarlane Notman to Edward Burtynsky and Douglas CouplandFrançoise Besson; Héliane Ventura; and Claire Omhovère. The Memory of Nature in Aboriginal, Canadian and American Contexts., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.254-272, 2014
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The Memory of LandscapeCatherine Delmas; André Dodeman. Re/membering place, Peter Lang, pp.271-287, 2013
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Inconclusiveness in Ben Okri'sVanessa Guignery. The "Famished Road" : Ben Okri's Imaginary Homelands, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.59-76, 2013
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The Artialisation of Landscape in Jane Urquhart's The WhirlpoolDiana Brydon; Marta Dvorak. Crosstalk : Canadian and Global Imaginaries in Dialogue, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, pp.199-214, 2012
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Out of the Garrison and BeyondPascale Guibert. Reflective landscapes of the anglophone countries, Rodopi, pp.85-104, 2011
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De l'efficacité du vide dans "A Complicated Kindness de Miriam Toews"Claire Omhovère. Perceptions et représentations de l'espace dans le monde anglophone (= Perceiving & representing space in the english-speaking world), Presses universitaires de Nancy, pp.113-128, 2011
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"Literary Geography"André Kaenel; Claire Omhovère; Richard Samin. L'interdisciplinarité en question dans les études anglophones, Presses universitaires de Nancy, pp.n.c., 2009
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Sous influenceHélène Quanquin; Christine Lorre-Johnston; Sandrine Ferré-Rode. Comment comparer le Canada avec les Etats-Unis aujourd'hui : enjeux et pratiques, Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, pp.161-176, 2009
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The Replication of Romance in Jane Urquhart's Away (1993)Charlotte Sturgess; Martin Kuester. Reading(s) from a distance : European perspectives on Canadian women's writing, Wissner, pp.54-65, 2008
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Roots and Routes in a Selection of Stories by Alistair MacLeodMarta Dvořák; New William Herbert. Tropes and territories : short fiction, postcolonial readings, Canadian writing in context, McGill-Queen's University Press, pp.271-290, 2007
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Kroetsch's Pedagogy of the PrecariousCharlotte Sturgess. The politics and poetics of passage in Canadian and Australian culture and fiction, CRINI, Centre de recherches sur les identités nationales et l'interculturalité; Université de Nantes, pp.191-208, 2006
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The Shore in Alistair MacLeod's "The Closing Down of Summer" (1976)Michèle Kaltemback; Marcienne Rocard. Le Canada : nouveaux défis = Canada revisited, Editions universitaires du sud, pp.191-203, 2005
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The Melting of Time in Thomas Wharton's "Icefields"Alison Calder; Robert Wardhaugh. History, literature, and the writing of the Canadian Prairies, University of Manitoba Press, pp.43-62, 2005
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A Terrifying Insularity of Mind2020
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Not Another Book About Landscape2019
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Recollecting Heritage2019, pp.155-156
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Faire commun - Séminaire thème 3 EMMA2020
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