William Marx#
| Membership Number: | 6182 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.college-de-france.fr/chaire/william-marx-litteratures-comparees-chaire-statutaire |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9125-2884 |
| Twitter: | https://twitter.com/willimarx |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/william.marx.52 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-marx-91952989 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Professor, Collège de France, chaire Littératures comparées (Comparative Literatures)
- 2014 - 2015 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.
- 2009 - 2019 Professor of Comparative Literature, Université Paris Nanterre, France
- 2006 - 2009 Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Université d'Orléans, France
- 2004 - 2006 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France
- 2001 - 2004 Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France
- 2000 - 2001 Graduate Assistant (Attaché temporaire d'enseignement et de recherche), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
- 1997 - 1999 Visiting Lecturer in French Language and Literature, Kyoto University, Japan
- 1994 - 1997 Research and Teaching Scholar (Chargé de recherches documentaires ), Université Paris-Sorbonne and Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 1991 - 1992 Instructor in French, Fordham University, United States
Fields of Scholarship
- Japanese and Asian literatures and cultures
- Poetry, drama (Greek tragedy, Japanese Noh)
- Postsymbolism and modernism
- Comparative literature and cultural studies
- Aesthetics and history of literary criticism and theory since Antiquity
- Textual criticism (philology, scientific editions of texts)
- Gender studies
- French and European literatures
- Ancient Greek and Latin literatures
- History of cultural and literary canons
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture, British Comparative Literature Association (UK)
- 2022 The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities-Princeton University Press Lectures (UK)
- 2022 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2022 Ernst Robert Curtius Visiting Professorship (Universität Bonn, Germany)
- 2021 International Francqui Professorship (Belgium)
- 2018 Best Sellers 2018 in Literary Criticism, Library Journal (for The Hatred of Literature) (USA)
- 2018 The 80 Best Books of 2018, PopMatters (for The Hatred of Literature) (USA)
- 2018 Book of the Week, Times Higher Education (for The Hatred of Literature) (UK)
- 2018 Best Essay, La Cause littéraire (for Un savoir gai) (France)
- 2016 Shortlist, Paris-Liège Literary Prize (for La Haine de la littérature) (France and Belgium)
- 2015 Shortlist, Décembre Prize (for La Haine de la littérature) (France)
- 2014 Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany)
- 2012 Final Shortlist, Revue des Deux Mondes Prize (for Le Tombeau d'Œdipe) (France)
- 2010 Montyon Prize in Literature and Philosophy, Académie française (for Vie du lettré) (France)
- 2004 Junior Membership, Institut universitaire de France (France)
- 1983 3rd Prize in Latin Composition, 2nd Award (Accessit) in Translation from Ancient Greek, Concours général (national competition for high school students) (France)
