A resident of the Thiers Foundation, Matthieu Vernet is a research associate at the Chair of Modern and Contemporary French Literature and is attached to the Proust team at ITEM (ENS/CNRS). A specialist in French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, he defended a thesis in modern literature under the direction of Antoine Compagnon at the Université Paris-Sorbonne: "Mémoire et oubli de Baudelaire dans l'œuvre de Proust" (Baudelaire's memory and oblivion in Proust's work). Her research focuses on the memory of works and texts, the act of reading, and the study of the relationship between novels and poetics. Sensitive to questions of literary theory and history, M. Vernet seeks to propose a dynamic definition of intertextuality by combining micro-readings of specific intertextual phenomena with studies of reception and memory. A member of the Fabula team at the École normale supérieure, M. Vernet has directed the Acta fabula journal since 2008. He recently co-edited with A. Compagnon and K. Yoshikawa Swann le centenaire, the proceedings of the Cerisy symposium organized in 2012, and is preparing a collaborative edition of Cahier 7 des brouillons d'À la recherche du temps perdu for Brepols.
Matthieu Vernet is a fellow of the Fondation Thiers, a member of L'Équipe Proust (ENS/CNRS) and attached to Antoine Compagnon's Chair in Modern and Contemporary French Literature at the Collège de France. He has just defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "Baudelaire: Remembered and Forgotten in the work of Proust" at the University Paris-Sorbonne. A specialist in 19th and 20th century French literature, M. Vernet assesses questions of memory and representation, the act of reading and the relation between poetry and prose. Combining literary history and critical theory, his research aims to establish a dynamic understanding of intertextuality by proposing close readings that combine specific instances of intertextuality with reception studies. Member of Fabula at the École normale supérieure, M. Vernet is publishing director of Acta fabula, a peer-reviewed online journal since 2008. He recently published with A. Compagnon and K. Yoshikawa Swann le Centenaire and currently works on the edition of "Le Cahier 7" of À la recherche du temps perdu.
