Claire Cazajous-Augé is a doctoral student in the Départemente Études du Monde Anglophone at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. Her research interests include North American literature, Rick Bass, ecocriticism, and environmental writing. Her publications include “Animals Redefining Borders in Rick Bass’s ‘The Hermit’s Story'” (2015) and “The Politics of Visibility in the American West”, co-authored with Céline Rolland Nabuco.
Wendy Harding is a professor in the Départemente Études du Monde Anglophone at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France. Dr. Harding’s research interests include ecocriticism, representations of American space, and ideological constructions of race and gender. Her publications include (among others) The Myth of Emptiness and the New American Literature of Place (2014), Beyond Words: The Othering Excursion in Contemporary American Literature (2007), and A World of Difference: An Inter-Cultural Study of Toni Morrison’s Fiction (1994), co-authored with J. Martin.
Companion Species in North American Cultural Productions 