Edouard Marsoin
Associate Professor in American Literature
Research | Bio | Medias | Publications | Articles
Research
Research themes
- Nineteenth-century US literature
- Pleasure joy and jouissance in literature
- Dietetics, literature and philosophy
- Sexuality, gender and literature
Research Supervision
- 19th-century US literature
- Affects, senses, and sensations in US literature (18th-21st c.)
- Slave narratives and African-American literature
Current Project
Bio
- 2022-present, Associate Professor in American Literature, Université Paris Cité
- 2016-2022, Lecturer in English, Université Paris Cité
- 2011-2016, Teaching fellow, Université Paris Diderot
- 2019-2010, Visiting scholar and part-time lecturer in French at Boston University
- 2008, Agrégation in English (rank: 9)
- 2006-2007, Language assistant in French at King’s College London
- 2005-2011, Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Anglophone studies at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
- 2003-2005, Student at Lycée Henri-IV, Paris.
Media
Publications
Articles
Book and special issues
- Melville et l’usage des plaisirs, Paris, Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019.
https://sup.sorbonne-universite.fr/catalogue/civilisations-cultures-litteratures-etrangeres/mondes-anglophones/melville-et-lusage-des-plaisirs - American Pleasures (19th c.), ed., Revue française d’études américaines, no. 167, 2021.
https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2021-2.htm -
Rescaling Melville, ed. (with Ronan Ludot-Vlasak and Cécile Roudeau), Textual Practice, vol. 35, no. 11, 2021.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtpr20/35/11?nav=tocList
Articles
- « The Origin of Speeches (or Lack Thereof): Magical Veerings in Pierre », Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 2022.
- « What Are the Pleasures of a Slave? The Politics of Affect in Antebellum US Slave Narratives », Revue française d’études américaines, no. 167, 2021.
- « ‘No Land of Pleasure Unalloyed’: Economies of Pleasure and Pain in Melville’s Typee and Omoo », J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, vol. 8, no. 2, 2020. Hennig Cohen Prize 2020.
- « Billy Budd: The Eromenos Has to Die », Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, vol. 22, no. 1, 2020.
- « The Belly Philosophical: Melville, Nietzsche, and the Ascetic Ideal », Textual Practice, vol. 33, no. 10, 2019.
- « Poét(h)ique de la citation vive dans Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) de James Baldwin », in Christophe Ippolito (ed.), La littérature et la vie, Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2018.