Abigail Fields

Abigail Fields is the Hall Family Foundation Assistant Professor of French at the University of Kansas. Their research is primarily interested in the representation of agriculture in French-language literature and popular media from the 19th century to the hyper-contemporary. They are currently working on two book projects. The Literary Field: Agriculture, Narrative and the Ecocritical Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century France, presents a case study of agricultural fields in literary production of the period, to trace the development of a cultural construction of often taken-for-granted notions of land, landscape and agriculture. This work also offers an agro-ecocritical re-theorization of setting, through the analytic prism of agriculture as a narrative force. Their second book project, La Banane française ? A (De)colonial Crop traces the history of the banana as symbol and site of colonial oppression and decolonial resistance in metropolitan French and French Caribbean art and media in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. They are also a poet and translator and are co-editor of The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada.