Françoise Lavocat#
| Membership Number: | 4442 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.univ-paris3.fr/mme-lavocat-francoise-149574.kjsp |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2018 President of the International Society for fiction and Fictionality studies
- 2017 Visiting professor at the University of Chicago
- 2015 - 2025 Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France
- 2014 - 2015 Fellow at the Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin
- 2013 - 2015 President of the French Society of General and Comparative Literature
- 2013 Visiting professor at the University of Chicago
- 2011 - 2020 Director of the Institute of Comparative Research at the University of Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Since 2011 Professor of Comparative Literature at the University Paris 3-Sorbonne nouvelle
- 2009 - 2013 director of the international project “Hermes. History and Theories of Interpretations”
- 2000 - 2011 Director of the Institute of comparative research in early modern period (C.L.A.M.) at Paris 7-Denis Diderot
- 2001 - 2011 Professor of Comparative Literature at the University Paris 7- Denis Diderot
- 2001 - 2005 first co-director and then director of the international project “Styles and Divisions of Knowledge” (“Styles et partages des savoirs”) 1550-1700
- 1999 - 2001 Associate Professor at the University Paris 7-Denis Diderot
- 1994 - 1999 Associate Professor at the University Lumière-Lyon II
Fields of Scholarship
- Fact and fiction
- Theory of possible worlds
- Narrative of catastrophes
- Interpretation and cognitive sciences
- Demographie of ficional universes (19e s)
- European literatures and cultures of early modernity
Honours and Awards
- 1999 Prize of the Academie des Sciences morales et politiques (Prize Adrien Duvant), for the book: "Arcadies Malheureuses, aux origines du roman moderne" (Champion, France 1998)
- 2021 Honorary doctorate from the University of Chicago
