Valérie Morisson

Valérie Morisson is Professor of British and Irish cultural history at Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (UPVM3). She is a member of EMMA (Études Montpéllieraines du Monde Anglophone) and co-director of the Sensitive Ecologies axis of the GIS EIRE. She has written extensively on Irish and British visual culture with a specific emphasis on artistic praxis and field work. Many of her publications have explored the complex relation between art and national identity. Her latest book, Locating the Self / Welcoming the Other in British and Irish Art 1990-2020 (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2022) investigates the way contemporary artists respond to the issue of belongingness ; it addresses space and artistic praxis as relational and dialogical. Her recent research focuses on environmental art and the artists’ intimate relation with the landscape or habitat. Her latest publications and conferences investigate the way artists have moved away from landscape and approached the vegetal realm through new ontologies and praxis.