Camille Manfredi is Professor of Scottish literature and visual arts at the University of Brest (Western Brittany).

Research interests :

• Scottish literatures and visual arts (20th and 21st centuries)

• Scottish cultural nationalism

• Intermediality, word-image-sound relationships, filmpoetry, photo and video-literature

• Environmental studies: ecocriticism and geocriticism

• British literatures (20th and 21st centuries)

Her published work includes the monographs Alasdair Gray: le faiseur d’Ecosse (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2012) and Nature and Space in Contemporary Scottish Writing and Art (Springer / Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), as well as the edited volumes Alasdair Gray: Ink for Worlds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and Brittany-Scotland: Contacts, Transfers and Dissonances (with Michel Byrne, Centre for Breton and Celtic Research, 2017). She is the co-editor of Hugh MacDiarmid 1923-2023 : Visions and Revisions with Fiona Paterson and Philippe Laplace (2026), of The Edinburgh Companion to Alasdair Gray and the Arts with Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon and Kirsten Stirling (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), of Intermedial arts as Cultural Resilience with Lindsay Blair (Routledge, 2024) and of Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New with Marie-Odile Pittin-Hédon and Scott Hames (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). She has also co-edited three thematic issues of the online journals E-Rea and Angles: “Understanding, Acknowledging, Representing Environmental Emergency”, with Sylvie Nail (2021), “Relating / L'Écosse en relation”, with Annie Thiec and Pierre Carboni (2022) and « Re-Viewing and Re-Imagining Scottish Waters in Word and Image », with Lindsay Blair (2024).

Camille Manfredi holds an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Aix-Marseille University (« L'OEuvre-Ecosse : reprise et invention dans les arts et la littérature en Ecosse post-dévolutionnaire », 2017) and a PhD from the University of Nantes (« Recherche symbolique et reconstruction formelle dans la fiction de Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray et Alison Louise Kennedy », 2005) and the Agrégation (2000).