Biography

Born on May 5 1945, Issy-les-Moulineaux (92).

Education and professional career

  • 1964-1968 : Student at the École normale supérieure
  • 1968-1970 : Assistant at the Sorbonne
  • 1970-1972 : Assistant at the University of Tunis (national cooperation service)
  • 1972-1976 : Assistant then Senior Assistant at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne
  • 1976-1987 : Professor at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail
  • 1987-1994 : Professor at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne
  • 1995-2016 : Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Littératures de la France médiévale chair
  • 2000 : Member of the Institut (Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres)
  • 2012 : Permanent Secretary of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres

Main current responsibilities

  • 2000-2003, 2003-2006, 2006-2009, 2009-2012 : Vice-President of the Assembly of Professors of the Collège de France
  • 2004-2005 : Chairman of the Board of Directors of the École normale supérieure
  • 2004-2007 : Delegate of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres to the International Academic Union
  • 2004-2009 : Member of the European Center for Doctoral Studies at the University Federico II of Naples
  • 2005-2009 : Member of the International Advisory Board, Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University
  • Vice-Chairman of the Sauvegarde des lectures littéraires association
  • Member of the Supervisory Board, Presses universitaires de France
  • Member of the Scientific Council of the Royaumont Center for Medieval Music
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Institut collégial européen
  • Director of the Société des amis de la Romania, co-director of the review Romania
  • Member of the scientific committee of Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale
  • Director of the " Lettres gothiques " collection, Livre de Poche (Hachette)
  • Co-editor of the classic " Livre de Poche 
  • Co-director of the " Perspectives littéraires " collection, Presses universitaires de France
  • Member of the editorial board of Commentaire
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Bibliographie des écrivains français
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Translatio
  • Member of the Heresis reading committee
  • Member of the editorial board of Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture (Stanford)
  • Member of the Honorary Committee of Revue des Langues Romanes
  • General Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Fondation Singer Polignac
  • Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors, Fondation Hugot, Collège de France
  • Member of the Scientific Council of the École des Chartes
  • Co-director of the Revue critique de Philologie romane
  • Chairman of the Honorary Committee of the Société des amis d'Henri Pourat

Selected bibliography