Abigail Culpepper

Abigail Culpepper is a doctoral candidate in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Brown University. With an attention to textuality, their research focuses on problems of ecocritical reading and questions of literary scale. Informed by eco-deconstruction and new materialism, her dissertation entitled “Figures of Sessility: Reading Plants, Poems, and Other Still Things” argues for literary critical reading as a mode of environmental engagement in which flowering plants, lichen, and coral become models for a new textual ecology.