Béné Meillon

Béné Meillon is Professeure des universités (Full Professor) affiliated with the research team 3L.AM at the Université d’Angers. She is currently serving as President of EASCLE (the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment, 2024-2026) and is the scientific director of the cross-disciplinary Sea More Blue research program on blue ecopoetics and blue humanities based at the Université d’Angers. Formerly Associate Professor at the University of Perpignan via Domitia, she ran OIKOS, the ecopoetics research group in Perpignan, from 2015 to 2023. She has created an Internet platform dedicated to ecopoetics and ecocriticism in France (https://ecopoetique.hypotheses.org), with recent extensions devoting a number of pages to blue ecopoetics.

Initially a short story specialist, her research specifically explores ecocritical and ecopoetic readings via the notion of reenchantment, focusing on magical realism and liminal realism, mythopoeia, and ecofeminism, while paying close attention to the ecopoetic intra-actions between nature and language. Her extensive monograph Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth, published by Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), came out in 2022. She has organized many events to advance ecopoetics and has edited a number of publications in the field. She has also been engaged in creative projects that seek to restore ecological attention and is currently working on a multimedia project titled Dancing Bodies of Water.