The Institut des Études Littéraires et Linguistiques brings together the professors who hold a chair in literature and language science at the Collège de France. Its aim is to organize joint research in the various fields covered by these chairs. It brings together the chairs of active professors in these fields, as well as the chairs of honorary professors.
It brings together the following professors:
- Luigi Rizzi - General Linguistics
- William Marx - Comparative Literatures
- Antoine Compagnon, Professor Emeritus - Modern and contemporary French literature: history, criticism, theory
- Carlo Ossola, Professor Emeritus - Modern literatures of Neolatin Europe
- Roger Chartier, Professor Emeritus - Writing and culture in modern Europe
- Michel Zink, professor emeritus, secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres - Literatures of medieval France
Foreign professors invited by the Collège de France to occupy annual chairs in literature and language sciences are associated with the Institute's activities, as are the various chair collaborators, lecturers, engineers and temporary teaching and research associates.
Since the 1990s, the Institut des Études Littéraires et Linguistiques has regularly organized, under the responsibility of one or other of its members, study days or colloquia that bring together some of the professors and their collaborators, as well as other French and foreign researchers. These meetings take place either at the Collège de France, where they are open to the public, or at the Fondation Hugot du Collège de France, in the form of closed colloquia.
Such colloquia enable us to bring together related fields of thought - literary criticism, the history of ideas, the history of art, poetic creation, the sciences of language - but which differ in terms of the periods concerned or the approaches and methods employed. They testify to the fruitfulness of joint research between chairs whose titles, specialities and inspirations are very different, but which are united at the Collège de France.
A number of colloquia organized by the Institut des Études littéraires et linguistiques have resulted in publications.
