Michel Jeanneret
Professor
16th and 17th Century French Literature
German and Romance Languages and Literatures
The Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218
Telephone: (410) 516-0478
E-mail: jeanneret@jhu.edu
Now a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins, Michel Jeanneret was for many years professor of French Literature at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, head of the Department of French and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Letters. At the beginning of his career, he taught in Cambridge, UK. His wife still lives and works there, and he spends most of his free time in England. He values his numerous contacts with American universities, some of which, like Harvard, Princeton, the University of Washington at Seattle and Irvine, have invited him as Visiting Professor. He has also held posts as Visiting Professor at the Collège de France, at the University of Paris 4-Sorbonne and Paris 7- Denis Diderot, as well as in the Universities of Beijing, of Kyoto and at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Most of his research and published work are devoted to the literature and culture of the Renaissance. His first book is a study of religious poetry in France, during the civil wars of the XVIth century. Since then, a centre point of his interest has been Rabelais and the problem of interpretation in that period. His book on banquets and table talk was translated as A Feast of Words (Chicago University Press) and the next, Perpetuum mobile, on the mobility of shapes in the world view and the aesthetics of the Renaissance, has come out in translation at The Johns Hopkins University Press. He has also freed himself from excessive specialization by writing a book on Literature and Madness in Romanticism. His most recent essay, published by Le Seuil in Paris, bears on XVIIth century eroticism and free thinkers in the Classical era.
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