Jean-Michel Ganteau#
| Membership Number: | 4136 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://etudes-anglophones.upv.univ-montp3.fr/enseignants/g/jean-michel-ganteau |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - 2013 Full Professor, Dept. of Anglophone Studies, University of Montpellier 3
- 2011 - present Director of the MA Programme (Modern Languages), Université Montpellier 3
- 2010 - present Head of doctoral programmes (Ecole Doctorale 58), Université Montpellier 3
- 2010 - present Member of the management board of the University Presses of Montpellier
- 2008 - present Member of the Conseil Scientifique of Université Montpellier 3
- 2008 - 2011 Member of the Foreign Literature Committee of the Centre National du Livre (Paris)
- 2006 - 2010 Chair of the Department of English, Université Montpellier 3
- 2006 - present Member of the editorial board of the University Presses of Montpellier
- 2005 - present Co-editor of the “Present Perfect” series (Presses Universitaires de Montpellier)
- 2004 - present Editor of the journal Etudes britanniques contemporaines
Fields of Scholarship
- Postmodernism
- (Ethics of) romance
- Ethics of affects
- Aesthetics (camp, kitsch, sublime)
- Contemporary British fiction
- Englishness
- Theory of vulnerability
- Care
- Ethics and the novel
- Trauma studies
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
- 2013 Exceptional class Professorship (the highest rank in French Universities) granted by section 11 of the Universities National Council (the youngest recipient in Section 11 ever).
- 2011 Scientific excellence Prize granted by the French Ministry of Education. Renewed in 2015.
- 2007 Competitive National Book Centre Award and Grant for writing the monograph Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (Paris : Houdiard, 2008)
