Pauline Goul is assistant professor of French and joined GW in 2019. Before that, she taught at Vassar College for two years, and holds a PhD in French Literature from Cornell University, and a Maîtrise in English Literature from the Paris-IV-Sorbonne university. She is preparing a book manuscript, tentatively titled “The Anxiety of Waste: New World, Environment and Literature in Renaissance France”. Early Modern Écologies, a volume she co-edited with Phillip John Usher (NYU), was published by the University of Amsterdam Press in the first weeks of quarantine (March 2020). She has published articles in the Forum for Modern Languages Studies and The Comparatist, and chapters in various volumes. Her latest publication is a short piece in Bruno Latour’s volume, Critical Zones: the Science and Politics of Landing on the Earth (October 2020, MIT Press), alongside contributors like Dipesh Chakrabarty, Donna Haraway, and Isabelle Stengers. Her research focuses broadly on the emergence of a sense of care for the environment, as well as a corresponding anxiety, in the French Renaissance in particular, and in the ways that the relationship between humans and the environment has been negotiated, complicated and disoriented in literary texts. In her next project, she will investigate the particular relationship between women and the environment in early modern and modern French literature, which led to the emergence of a French and Francophone ecofeminist thought.