Marion De Schepper (she/her) is a researcher in Anglophone literary studies. Her work explores how plants are represented in contemporary and historical literature, with a focus on questions of literary form, memory, affect, and ecology. She is the coordinator of the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative seminar series.
Marion obtained an MA in Linguistics and Literature (English and Scandinavian Studies) from Ghent University, and an MA in Literary Studies from KU Leuven, the latter an advanced inter-university programme jointly offered by the Flemish universities. She wrote her BA and MA theses 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 PhD project, titled “Witnessing Plants”, explores literary representations of plants as experiencers and mediators of environmental change in contemporary English-language fiction.
