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Ben Beitler studies the treatment of environmental conflict in contemporary French film and literature. He is currently finishing a dissertation on the representation of pesticides in France since 1945. He is also working on a project that considers the literary and filmic afterlives of the French paysannerie. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Paragraph, Continuum and The Trouble, as well as the collective publication Living with Precariousness.