Clara de Massol is a Lecturer in Memory Studies in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. Drawing from a background in cultural and literary studies, she examines and interrogates the intersections of the interdisciplinary fields of memory studies and environmental humanities. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Memory Studies Association’s Excellent Paper award and her 2024 monograph Remembering the Anthropocene: Memorials Beyond the Human, published in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies series, surveys and defines the developing field of environmental memory studies.

Clara teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries. Her teaching areas include cultural studies, memory studies, global media, and environmental humanities, with an emphasis on fostering critical thinking and uncovering the intricate connections between past and present cultural and political phenomenon.

Research interests and PhD supervision

• Memory studies
• Environmental Humanities
• Postcolonialism
• Posthumanism
• Cultural Studies

Selected Publications

• De Massol De Rebetz, C., 2024. Remember the Anthropocene: Memorials beyond the human, Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series.
• De Massol De Rebetz, C., 2023. Edenic Extinction: Memorialising extinction across timescales at the Eden Portland project. In: Stark, Hannah (ed), Extinction and Memorial Culture: Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene, Taylor & Francis Purple.
• De Massol De Rebetz, C., 2022. Purple by John Akomfrah. Confronting Human Histories with Deep Time in the Anthropocene. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Autumn 2022.
• De Massol De Rebetz, C., 2020. Remembrance Day for Lost Species. Remembering and Mourning Extinction in the Anthropocene. Memory Studies Journal, 13, 5, pp. 875-888.
• De Massol De Rebetz, C., 2019. The Anthropocene Memorial: Recording Climate Change on The Banks of the Potomac River in Washington D.C. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry. 5, 2, p. 5-18.