Anne Duprat - Biography#

Anne DUPRAT (1969) is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Université de Picardie-Jules Verne and a Senior Fellow of Institut Universitaire de France. Specialized in the theory of fiction, she has published several monographies and multi-authored essays on Early Modern European Literature, as well as literary translations from Italian, Latin, English and Spanish.

From 2008 to 2011 she was Principal investigator of the ANR CORSO project ("Islam/Christianity on the threshold of modernity. Images et réalités de la guerre de course en Méditerranée (1550-1750) - ANR- 06-CONF-021. 10.01.2011). Since 2017 she has been directing the Research Network and Project ALEA "Artificial Figurations/Configurations of Chance. Representing Contingency in Europe" (2017-2023, MESHS / IUF / ANR-19-CE27-0006-01), which brings together specialists in the history and theory of literature, historiography, aesthetic philosophy and epistemology around the analysis of representations of chance in European art, from the beginning of modernity to the present day.

Website: https://hasard.hypotheses.org

Her major publications include Vraisemblances. Poétiques de la fiction en France et en Italie (Champion, 2009), Récits d'Orient en Occident (co-ed., with E. Picherot, Paris, P.UP.S., 2008), Fiction et cultures (co-ed., with F. Lavocat, Paris, 2010) and Histoires et savoirs. Anecdotes scientifiques aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (co-ed., with F. Aït-Touati, Peter Lang, 2012). She is currently curating a first French translation of Cervantes's theatre.

Anne Duprat is scientific editor of the « Imago Mundi » collection (Sorbonne Universités Presses), and was president of the Société française de Littérature générale et comparée (SFLGC) from 2015 to 2019.

Profile Academia.edu: https://u-picardie.academia.edu/AnneDuprat
Institutional homepage: https://www.u-picardie.fr/mme-anne-duprat--334174.kjsp?RH=1409580989931