William Marx - Curriculum Vitae#
EDUCATION
- École normale supérieure, 11th rank, Paris, 1986
- Agrégation in Classics, 1st rank, 1989
- Doctorat ès lettres, summa cum laude, Paris-Sorbonne University
- Habilitation à diriger des recherches, Paris 8 University, 2005
MAIN AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- Junior Membership, Institut universitaire de France, 2004
- Montyon Prize, Académie française, 2010
- Fellowship, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, 2014
- Chaire International Francqui Professorship, Belgium, 2021
- The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities-Princeton University Press Lectures, UK, 2022
- Malcolm Bowie Memorial Lecture, British Comparative Literature Association, 2022
- Member of the Academia Europaea, since 2022
MAIN PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Professor of Comparative Literature, Paris Nanterre University, 2009 - 2019
- Visiting Professor, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2018; Brown University, USA, 2013
- Academic Advisory Board (Wissenschaftlicher Beirat), Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, since 2016
- Ernst Robert Curtius Professorship, Universität Bonn, Germany, 2022
BOOKS
L’Adieu à la littérature. Histoire d’une dévalorisation (XVIIIe-XXe siècle), Paris: Minuit, 2005. Arabic, Bosnian, Dutch, Japanese and Romanian translations.
Vie du lettré, Paris: Minuit, 2009. Italian and Japanese translations.
Le Tombeau d’Œdipe. Pour une tragédie sans tragique, Paris: Minuit, 2012. American (Verso Books), Italian and Japanese translations.
La Haine de la littérature, Paris: Minuit, 2015. American (Harvard University Press), Arabic, Brazilian, Greek, Japanese, Polish and Spanish translations.
Un savoir gai, Paris: Minuit, 2018.
Vivre dans la bibliothèque du monde, Paris: Fayard, 2020. American and Japanese translations forthcoming.
Des étoiles nouvelles. Quand la littérature découvre le monde, Paris: Minuit, 2021.
8 edited books and journal issues.
4 scientific editions.
104 scientific articles or book chapters.
68 invited lectures outside France (papers in international conferences not included).