Marion De Schepper (she/her) is a researcher in Anglophone literature. Her work explores how plants are represented in contemporary and historical literature, with a focus on questions of literary form, memory, affect, and ecology.
Marion obtained a MA in Linguistics and Literature — English and Scandinavian Studies at Ghent University, and a MA in Literary Studies at KU Leuven et al. She wrote her Bachelor's and Master's dissertations on plants in British Romantic fiction and poetry. She is currently working on a BOF-funded doctoral research project at Ghent University, supervised by Marco Caracciolo, Stef Craps and Elly McCausland. This project, titled "Witnessing Plants", explores literary expressions of plants as experiencers and mediators of environmental change in contemporary English fiction.
