Nathalie Ferrand

      

  1. 1.Curriculum


  1. 2.Papers and lectures


  1. 3.Publications





      
 

               

        2011

                 

                                                             

        

           

          2012



          
       

 

          2019



         



         2022

















 

 

Background

She studied at the Ecole normale supérieure (Rue d’Ulm) and obtained her doctorate in Modern Literature from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne. She holds an agrégation in Modern Literature and the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne). Before joining the CNRS, she has taught at the Universities of Orléans and Paris-Sorbonne.


In 2004-2005, she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship for research on ‘the French novel in Germany during the eighteenth century’ (host institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich). In the last years, she was the French coordinator of a trilateral Villa Vigoni workshop entitled ‘Imagination: the camera oscura of the narrative process’ (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, 2007-2009). In 2007-2011, she was a research fellow at the Maison française d’Oxford and an associate member of the French Sub-faculty.

In Oxford, she organized together with Nicholas Cronk a conference on ‘Les 250 ans de Candide’ and a study day on ‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau et les querelles de son temps’. In November 2012 she gave the Besterman lecture on ‘Rousseau: archive and invention’ at the Bodleian Library (Video). A short presentation of a Rousseau’s manuscript she discovered in Oxford is available here: Video.


Research Interests


18th-century French and European literature, especially Rousseau; poetics of the novel; illustrated books and book history; manuscripts and genetic criticism; marginalia (Voltaire); Italian novels (P. Chiari)



Selected publications


Books (selection)

  1. ‣Livre et lecture dans les romans français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 2002, 383 p.

  2. ‣Livres vus, livres lus. Une traversée du roman illustré des Lumières, Oxford, SVEC, 2009:03, 282 p.

  3. ‣Traduire et illustrer le roman au XVIIIe siècle, ed., Oxford, SVEC, 2011:05, 386 p.

  4. ‣Genesis n°34 Brouillons des Lumières,  ed.,  Paris, 2012, 162 p.

  5. ‣Les 250 ans de ‘Candide’. Lectures et relectures, ed. with N. Cronk, Louvain, Peeters, 2014, 636 p.

  6. ‣I manoscritti italiani del XVIII secolo. Un approccio genetico, a cura di Christian Del Vento e Nathalie Ferrand, Quaderni della rassegna della letteratura italiana, Firenze, 2018, 221 p.

  7. ‣Ecrire en Europe de Leibniz à Foscolo, sous la direction de N. Ferrand, Paris, CNRS-Editions, 2019, 264 p.

  8. ‣Dans l’atelier de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Genèse et interprétation, Paris, Hermann, 222 p.


Articles (selection)

  1. ‣‘The map of reading in ‘la Romancie’’, in Remapping the Rise of the European Novel: 1500-1800, SVEC 2007:10, pp. 171-184

  2. ‣‘La matière de la littérature: les narrations polychromes de Louis-Antoine Caraccioli’, in Aux limites de l’imitation. L’ut pictura poesis à l’épreuve de la matière aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Rodopi, 2009, pp. 155-168

  3. ‣‘C’est en habits d’homme qu’une femme peut philosopher: figures féminines du philosophe dans Thérèse philosophe et La Filosofessa italiana’, in Figures du philosophe dans les lettres anglaises et françaises, Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2010, pp. 171-187

  4. ‣‘L’illustration des œuvres de Rousseau’, in Jean-Jacques Rousseau et les arts, Paris, Editions du patrimoine-Centre des Monuments nationaux, 2012, pp. 54-66

  5. ‣‘Hamlet dans La Nouvelle Héloïse: la leçon d’arts visuels de Gravelot à Rousseau’, French Studies, 67.4, October 2013, pp. 494-507

  6. ‣‘Rétrograder avec Jean-Jacques. Une édition des manuscrits de La Nouvelle Héloïse’, in Annales Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tome 51, 2014, pp. 381-405

  7. ‣‘Translating and illustrating the 18th century novel’, in Word & Image, 30.4, 2014, pp. 181-193

  8. ‣‘Illustrer Diderot. Ses romans face au supplément de la gravure’, Diderot Studies, n°34, July 2016, pp. 53-70

  9. ‣‘Le paradoxe des manuscrits de Kehl’, avant-propos au volume 34 des Œuvres complètes de Voltaire, Oxford, Voltaire Foundation, 2016, pp. XXIII-XXV


Teaching and direction of research


  1. ‣Course on ‘Genetic criticism: texts and forms’ (Master 1 Theory of literature), Ecole normale supérieure, Paris

  2. ‣Course ‘Writing in the 18th Century. Creation and cultural transfers in Europe’

  3. ‣Programme director ‘Creative writing processes in Early Modern European Manuscripts and Books’ at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, Paris


Grants and awards


  1. ‣Research programme funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (2006-2009)

  2. ‣Research fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (2004-2005)

  3. ‣Research programme funded by PSL (2013 and 2015-2019)

  4. ‣Research programme funded by Labex TransferS (2017-2019)

Address:

Institut des Textes et Manuscrits modernes, CNRS- Ecole normale supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris

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Nathalie Ferrand is the director of the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris. She is a Senior Research Professor (tenured) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

She is a member of the board of trustees of the Voltaire Foundation, Oxford and a member of the Advisory Board of the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment. Former fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.