Jean-Michel Ganteau - Biography#

Jean-Michel Ganteau is Exceptional class Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France), where he chaired the Department of Anglophone Studies for four years (2006-2010) and co-chaired with Christine Reynier the highly competitive CERVEC research team between 2004 and 2010. Since 2010 he has been the Director of the Doctoral School 58 ("Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Civilizations") and the Coordinator of the Postgraduate programme of the Department.

He has been the scientific coordinator and secretary (1995-2004) and is currently the editor (since 2004) of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines. He is a membre of the scientific board of Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée and co-editor, with Christine Reynier, of the collection "Present Perfect" published by PULM, since 2005.

He is the author of three monographs: The Poetics and Politics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction (London and New York: Routledge, 2015). David Lodge: le choix de l’éloquence (Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001) and Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (Michel Houdiard, 2008).

He is the editor, with Christine Reynier, of four volumes of essays: Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature (Publications Montpellier 3, 2005), Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Arts (Presses Universitaires de la Méditerrannée, 2007), and Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (PULM, 2010), and Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts (PULM, 2011).

He has also edited four volumes of essays in collaboration with Susana Onega, The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960s (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Literature (Rodopi, 2011), Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature (Routledge, 2013) and Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form(Routledge, 2014).

He has edited special issues of various journals (Études anglaises, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens).

He has published around eighty articles or book chapters on contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in the ethics of affects (as manifest in such aesthetic resurgences and concretions as the baroque, kitsch, camp, melodrama, romance), in France and abroad (other European countries, the USA) in edited volumes or in such peer-reviewed journals as Miscelánea, Anglia, Symbolism, Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, or The Cambridge Quarterly.