Marie Gil

Marie Gil is a French writer and Professor of French Literature in Paris.

She studied at HEC Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sorbonne University, was a Fellow of the Fondation Thiers^[1] and taught French Literature at Paris-Sorbonne University and at the University of Franche-Comté, and is currently program director at the Collège international de philosophie.^[2] She is also director of the Roland Barthes research group at the Ecole Normale Supérieure.^[3]

She is the author of various books and articles on the theory of literature and the theory of reading,^[3] especially on the question of Literalism and Immanence, and she was noticed for her biography of Roland Barthes, in which she reads his life "as a text".^[4] She is a contributing editor to the French newspapers Le Monde, and Le Nouvel Observateur^[5] and used to do a weekly broadcast on France Musique.^[6]

She is also a member of the Prix de littérature André Gide^[7] and has published fiction.^[8]

Publications

• Les Deux Ecritures (Cerf, 2010).
• Péguy au pied de la lettre (Cerf, 2011).
• Roland Barthes, au lieu de la vie (Flammarion, 2012).
• Est (MF, 2015).
• Formalisme et littérature (Les Temps modernes, 2013).
• La critique de droite (Revue d'Histoire littéraire de la France, 2010).

References