Michel Imbert
Associate Professor in American Literature
Research | Bio | Medias | Publications | Articles
Research
Research themes
- 19th Century American Literature
- Literary history and the history of ideas
- American English and the language of writers in the 19th century
Current Project
- Law and Literature: Melville as a case study
- Logic, language, literature and nonsense. Wordplay (Thoreau, Melville, Dickinson, Twain)
Research Supervision :
- 19th century American Literature
Bio
Administrative Responsibilities:
- I supervised courses devoted to the entrance examination to become an English Teacher (Agrégation interne, Capes interne, formation continue) from 1999 to 2003 and, again, from 2007 to 2015
Media
Publications
Articles
- “Le dernier des Mohicans ou le ré-enchantement des signes”, Etudes Anglaises, Juillet-Septembre 2015 (68/3), pp.270-283.
- « Benito Cereno, le spectre de la domination espagnole », Les Amériques au fil du devenir, textesréunis par Fatiha Idmhand, Cécile Braillon-Chantraine, Ada Savin et Hélène Aji, Peter Lang, Berlin, 2016, pp.137-161
- « L’inconfiance de l’homme des foules dans The Confidence-Man d’Herman Melville », Etudes Anglaises, juillet-septembre 2018 (71/3), pp. 309-331.
- “The Handsome Sailor, the Cult of Beauty, Moral Dilemmas and Political Imperatives in Billy Budd, Sailor” Numéro 3 de la revue TIES en ligne, mai 2019, sous la direction d’Eric Athenot et Laure de Nervaux.http://revueties.org/numero/391-poetique-politique-l-esthetique-en-partage