Antoine Compagnon#
| Membership Number: | 2350 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- since 2005 Professor Elect, College de France, Paris.
- 1994 - 2006 Professor of French Literature at Université de Paris-Sorbonne
- since 1991 Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York
- 1985 - 1991 Professor of French, Columbia University, New York
- 1989 - 1990 Professor of French literature, Université du Maine, le Mans
Fields of Scholarship
- French and Comparative Literature
- Theory of Literature
Honours and Awards
- 1997 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002 Officier des Palmes académiques
- 1988 Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- 1994 Visiting Feilow, All Souls College, Oxford
- 2009 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- 2010 Honorary Degree of King's College London
- 2012 Honorary Degree of HEC Paris
- 2013 Honorary Degree, University of Liège
- 2011 Claude Lévi-Strauss Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
- 2018 Guizot Prize of the Académie française for Les chiffonniers de Paris
- 2022 Member of Académie française
