海角社区

Flora Roussel

Flora Roussel is a Postdoctoral Fellow (funded by the FRQSC) in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at 海角社区. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Montreal. Her research interests include feminist, queer, and intersectional considerations of bodies, relationalities, and affects. She is also interested in exophony. She is currently working on her first monograph, in which she analyzes 鈥渋n-between-ness鈥� as inherent to the performativity and affectivity of abjection in 21st-century literatures from Germany, France, Japan, and Nigeria. Her next project examines the construction of queer kinship and representations of alternative relationships in 21st-century Germanophone and Japanophone literary texts. She is the editor of Embodied Realities: Tracing Multitudes in Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film, and Art (forthcoming 2026, Peter Lang) and the co-editor of Voix plurielles special issue "Sortir de la binarit茅 sexuelle : au-del脿 de l鈥檕mbre de la visibilit茅" (2023). She seats on the executive committee of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association and of the journal 贵茅尘颈苍脡迟耻诲别蝉.

Pascal Schwaighofer

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pascal.schwaighofer [at] mcgill.ca

Pascal Schwaighofer is an interdisciplinary artist and postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, at 海角社区 in Montr茅al. His research intersects with environmental humanities, visual culture, media studies, and critical theory.

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He is currently working on a book project about the negativity of environmental existence and its unresolved grief. In light of the ongoing ecological crises, the project examines bee culture in fiction and nonfiction as a site of conflicting narratives around environmental entanglements, loss, and coexistence. Starting from the necessity of protecting pollinators while maintaining industrial crop pollination for granting global food security, the project explores the contradictions embedded in questions around labor, sustainability, reproduction, sexuality, and politics of repair.

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A second project is underway titled 鈥淎ffective Narratives in the Age of Environmental Collapses,鈥� focusing on the psychopathological responses to global warming and mass extinction embedded in storytelling. The edited volume aims to explore the 鈥渆nvironmental vantage point [...] that frustrates the distinction between intentionality and unintentionality undergirding imaginaries and practices of refusal鈥� (Swarbrick and Tremblay, 8; Edelman and Berlant, vii鈥搗iii). Affects, narratives, and their interplay form dynamic relationships that are constantly changing and resist simple translation into clear roadmaps, yet they need to be carefully examined at the site of their inscription.

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Pascal holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and an M.A. in Fine Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He was a postdoctoral fellow teaching in the programs of Comparative Literary and Culture Studies and Social Justice and Sustainability at Franklin University Switzerland and a Mellon Graduate Fellow at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. His work has been awarded the Peter Uwe Hohendahl Graduate Essay Prize in Critical Theory and the Comparative Literature Graduate Students Essay Prize, Cornell University. His artworks have been acquired by private and public collections and exhibited in major European museums. He was awarded several prizes and project grants, such as the Swiss Art Award, Project Grant Cornell Council for the Arts, ProHelvetia production and research grants.