Jean-Michel Ganteau

Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the Université Paul-Valéry—Montpellier 3 (France) where he co-chaired the CERVEC research team between 2004 and 2010. He is at the moment in charge of the postgraduate programmes and at chairs the Doctoral School (ED58). He is the editor of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines (volume 49 has just been released). He is the author of three monographs: David Lodge: le choix de l’éloquence (Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001), Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (Michel Houdiard, 2008) and The Aesthetics and Ethics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2015). He is also the editor, with Christine Reynier, of four volumes of essays Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Literature (Publications Montpellier 3, 2005), Impersonality and Emotion in Twentieth-Century British Arts (Presses universitaires de la Méditerrannée, 2007), Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Literature (PULM, 2010), and Autonomy and Commitment in Twentieth-Century British Arts (PULM, 2012). He has also edited several volumes of essays in collaboration with Susana Onega, The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960s (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007), Trauma and Ethics in Contemporary British Literature (Rodopi, 2010),Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Fiction (Routledge, 2013) and Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form (Routledge, 2014). He has edited special issues of various journals (Études anglaises, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens). He has published numerous articles on contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in the ethics of affects (as manifest in such aesthetic resurgences and concretions as the baroque, kitsch, camp, melodrama, romance), in France and abroad (other European countries, the USA) as chapters in edited volumes or in such journals as Miscelanea, Anglia, Symbolism, The Cambridge Quarterly, etc.