Stéphane Michaud (born 1944) is a French scholar specializing in comparative literature. He is Professor Emeritus of the

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in Paris where he taught since the 1990s. He has written or edited more than ten books, a body of work that is influential in his field.

Biography

Michaud taught at the Universities of Dijon,

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and Saint-Etienne before joining the

in the 1990s. He was secretary general, then president, of the Société des études romantiques et dix-neuviémistes, a learned society for the study of romanticism and

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He was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. He headed the publishing house of the Sorbonne Nouvelle,

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. He was the head of the Department of French and Comparative Literature at the

for several years. He collaborates on a number of academic publications, including ''

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'', ''Critique'', and ''Romantisme''.

Ties to Germany

Against a background of improving relationships between Germany and France in the post-war years, Stéphane Michaud spent one year in Germany in his childhood, as a means to study a foreign language and to become familiar with a foreign culture. This initiated a lifelong connection to Germany. After reading classical languages at the Sorbonne, Michaud worked in Germany as a language assistant at Heidelberg University. He published extensively about German authors of the 19th and 20th century, editing unpublished works such as Lou Andreas-Salomé's journal of her journey in Russia with

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, ''Rußland mit Rainer.'' He published French translations of works by the contemporary German poet

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. Michaud was an invited professor at various German institutions including Humboldt University of Berlin. He is a member of the Collegium Europaeum Jenense (CEJ) of the

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(Jena, Germany).

Major research topics: romanticism, socialism and feminism

Leading strands in his work are his focus on romanticism, his concern with

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, the socialist movements of the 19th century, and feminism. He is a leading expert on the socialist writer and activist

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, and on women writers such as Lou Andreas-Salomé.

Main publications

* ''Lettres'' de Flora Tristan. Paris, Le Seuil, 1980. Reviewed by Jean Gaulmier. * ''Muse et Madone. Visages de la femme de la Révolution française aux apparitions de Lourdes'' (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1985). Reviewed by Max Milner. * ''L'Impossible semblable. Regards sur trois siecles de relations littéraires franco-allemandes''. Paris, SEDES, 1991. Reviewed by Michel Trebitsch. * ''L'Édification. Morales et cultures au XIXe siècle'', Édition Créaphis, 1993. Reviewed by Denis Pernod. * ''Flora Tristan, La paria et son rêve''. Correspondance établie par Stéphane Michaud. E.N.S. Éditions Fontenay/Saint-Cloud, 1995, 302 p. Reviewed by Martine Reid. * ''Lou Andreas-Salomé, l'alliée de la vie'' (Seuil, 2000) (a biography of Lou Andreas-Salomé). Reviewed by F. Rochefort. A review/discussion of the book was broadcast by France Culture. * ''De Flora Tristan à Mario Vargas Llosa'' (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2004) * ''Freud en correspondance'' (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2007) * ''Quatre poètes dans l'Europe monde: Yves Bonnefoy, Michel Deguy, Marton Kalasz, Wulf Kirsten'' (Klincksieck, 2009) * Wulf Kirsten, ''Graviers'' (translation), Belin, coll. "L'extrême contemporain", 2009 (translation of works by the German poet

) * '' :fr:Max Milner, les leçons de l'ombre'' (Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 2011). Short review:

References

External links

Professional web page

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Michaud, Stephane 1944 births Living people French literary theorists Academic staff of Sorbonne Nouvelle University Paris 3 Academic staff of the University of Neuchâtel