"Acquiring knowledge in the field rather than exclusively at school". Interview with Rachel Bouvet

For Rachel Bouvet, literary studies are reinvented through contact with other disciplines: geography, for a geopoetic approach to texts, but also the life sciences, for a global approach to plants. More broadly, it is through movement, exploration and encounters with otherness that the researcher intends to bring literary research and creation into dialogue. Rachel Bouvet is a professor in the Department of Literary Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She first worked on spaces and places in literature as part of a geopoetic approach, before turning her attention to the relationship between literature and botany. She co-founded La Traversée - Atelier de géopoétique, as well as GRIVE (Groupe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le végétal et l'environnement). With Stéphanie Posthumus, she co-directed the volume Mouvantes et émouvantes. Les plantes à travers le récit (Presses universitaires de Montréal, 2024).