Raphaël J. Piguet

Role
Senior Lecturer
Office Phone
Office
313 East Pyne
Bio/Description

Profile

Raphaël Piguet received his Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Geneva in 2017. He is currently Head of Course for FRE 105 (in the Fall) and FRE 108 (in the spring). With Murielle Perrier, he also teaches FRE 306 : Wandering Utopias – Writing and Rewriting Reality. His research interests include travel literature, literary theory and the interactions between literary discourses and other sciences, in particular anthropology, philosophy, and mathematics. He co-directed an issue of Critique on Éric Chevillard (with Philippe Roger) and recently edited a book on bicycle travel narratives (À plume et à pédales. Voyages cyclistes, Paris, Lettres modernes Minard, April 2022). He is currently working on a critical edition of Nicolas Bouvier’s L’Usage du monde (1963 ; English translation : The Way of the World, New York Review of Books, 2010) and on a book project that analyzes the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and the textual genesis of structuralism.”
Selected Publications

Edited Journal Volumes

  • Voyages contemporains, 4: « À plume et à pédales. Voyages cyclistes, » Raphaël Piguet ed. Paris: Lettres modernes Minard, « La Revue des Lettres modernes »,
    2022-4.
  • Éric Chevillard : angles d’attaque. Critique, no 855-856, Aug.-Sept. 2018 (co-editor with Philippe Roger).

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters