Melanie Meunier

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Maîtresse de conférences en civilisation américaine Associate professor in American Studies

Melanie Meunier est maîtresse de conférences spécialisée en civilisation américaine. Sa thèse, préparée sous la direction de Bernard Genton et soutenue en 2014, porte sur la politique environnementale américaine. Sa recherche actuelle porte sur l’activisme des jeunes et les réponses au défi du changement climatique, ainsi que sur la politique américaine en général.

Melanie Meunier enseigne à Sciences Po Strasbourg.

mmeunier[at]unistra.fr

Melanie Meunier is an associate professor in American Studies. She defended her dissertation on the American environmental movement and politics in 2014. Currently, her research has concentrated on youth climate activism in the United States.

She teaches at Sciences Po Strasbourg, France - notably courses on the history of the environmental movement, responses to the climate crisis by the USA, the European Union and China, and a course on the evolution of the media in the 21st century.

Publications

“Framing climate action: how American youth climate activists are turning to radical disruptive direct action tactics.” UNED Madrid, “Sociopolitical Engagements and Youth Activisms,” published in the proceedings book, 2025, https://oai.e-spacio.uned.es/server/api/core/bitstreams/7fea45ee-e0b5-4e79-8281-39c7ae9b88e0/content pages 136-142.

“Translating Anxiety into Action: Youth Climate Activism during the Biden Administration, 2020-2024” published in IdeAs (journal of the Institut des Amériques), 2024, https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/18345

“How Youth Climate Activists Helped Pass the Inflation Reduction Act” published in LISA (Littérature, histoire des Idées, Images et Sociétés du monde anglophone) as part of the theme “Jeunesse, Politique et Crise de la Démocratie,” 2024, https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/16168

“Youth Climate Activism in the United States” published in e-rea (Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone) as part of the theme “Understanding, Acknowledging, Representing Environmental Emergency,” 2021, https://journals.openedition.org/erea/12490

“Obama’s Environmental Policy: High Hopes, Harsh Reality” published in La présidence de Barack Obama, a collective work for the agrégation d’anglais (competitive exam), published in Ellipses, edited by Jean-Eric Branaa, 2019

Book review: Critical Landscapes. Art, Space, Politics, Emily E. Scott & Kirsten J. Swenson (ed.) published in Ranam (Recherches anglaises et nord-américaines), 2018

Book review: Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, & Art in the Changing West, Lucy R. Lippard, published in Transatlantica, 2017, https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/8425

Conferences

“Sociopolitical Engagements and Youth Activisms,” UNED Madrid, Spain 2024. Paper: “Framing climate action: how American youth climate activists are turning to radical disruptive direct action tactics”
AICC 2024 (Second International Conference on Action versus Inaction on Climate Change), Strasbourg, France, 2024. Paper: “Youth Climate Activism: a Comparison between the American and French Approaches”
AFEA (Association Française d’Etudes Américaines) International Conference, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2024. Paper: “The self-empowerment of American youth climate activists”
International Conference of AISNA (Italian Association of American Studies) Narni, Italy, 2023. Paper: “The war on pollution: how environmental activism lessened America’s vulnerability to unchecked economic development”
International Conference of DGfA (German Association of American Studies), Rostock, Germany, 2023. Paper: “The Dakota Access Pipeline: A Standoff between anti-pipeline activists and the fossil fuel industry”
Guest speaker at the University of Bretagne Sud for the conference cycle entitled “Structures et Systèmes dans les Amériques,” Lorient, France, 2022.
Heidelberg Center for American Studies international conference entitled “Natural Catastrophes in the US” online, 2022. Paper: “Exploring the American Response to Climate Change through the Lens of Political Cultures”
European Association of American Studies, Warsaw, Poland, originally scheduled May 2020, held online May 2021. Paper: “American Climate Change Policy: Subfederal Action”
University of Lausanne international conference entitled “Civil Society and the Law: Civil Disobedience, Protests and the (Re)writing of Environmental Politics,” Lausanne, Switzerland, online, 2020. Paper: “Environmental Activism and the Media”
University of Lausanne international conference entitled “Narratives of (Un)sustainability: Assessing US Oil Culture,” Lausanne, Switzerland, 2019. Paper: “Rising Youth Climate Activism in the United States”
European Association of American Studies International Conference, London, Great Britain, 2018. Paper: “Mobilizing Support for Environmental Issues through Emotional Appeal”
French Association of American Studies International Conference, Strasbourg, 2017. Paper: “Car Culture: An American Dream Gone Wrong?”
French Association of Canadian Studies International Conference, Grenoble, France, 2016. Paper: “Paul Watson: Environmental Hero or Eco-terrorist?”
French Association of American Studies International Conference, Paris, France, 2014. Paper: “The Influence of the Conservative Movement on American Views about Climate Change”
Panelist for the 8th and 9th BCA International Student Conferences organized by the Institute of Political Science of Strasbourg and BCA (American university exchange org):
- “The Ecocide Initiative: Perspectives on Environmental Issues” 2012
- “European-US Relations: Differing Perspectives on Environmental Issues” 2011