Edouard Marsoin

Associate Professor in American Literature

edouard.marsoin@gmail.com

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

       

      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.