École normale supérieure de Lyon

Professor and Senior Scholar at the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
Visiting Professor 2026–2027: September 1-30, 2026
Host Researcher: Delphine Antoine-Mahut

Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi
Visiting Professor 2026–2027: September 30 through October 30, 2026
Host Scholar: Vanessa Guignery

Claire Barel-Moisan, a CNRS research fellow and member of IHRIM, and Delphine Gleizes, a professor of 19th-century French literature at the University of Grenoble-Alpes, have published Merveilles électriques: Literature, Visual Culture, and Popularization (1740–1940) with Savoirs en textes.

On April 16, the CNRS announced the recipients of its 2026 medals. Among them are three members of ENS de Lyon laboratories: Sébastien Manneville, professor at LPENSL (silver medal); Charlotte Kirchhelle, an INRAE research fellow at the RDP laboratory (bronze medal); and Lucien Derainne, a junior professor at IHRIM (bronze medal).

Anne-Lyse Chabert, a CNRS research fellow at IHRIM, and Gabrielle Halpern, a philosopher and author of numerous books, have published Nos paroles empêchées (Our Stifled Words) with Éditions de l'Aube.

Professor of History and holder of the Milton H. Wilson Chair in the Humanities in the Department of History at Northwestern University in the United States
Visiting Professor 2025–2026: April 1st – May 31, 2026
Host researcher: Lacy Rumsey

Thibaut Radomme is a senior lecturer in medieval literature at Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne and a researcher-teacher at the IHRIM laboratory. He has published the collective volume Des frères mendiants en français with Classiques Garnier.

Full professor and research director at the School of Advanced Social Studies (IDAES) – National University of San Martín
Visiting professor 2025-2026: January 10 to February 20, 2026
Host researcher: Samir Boumedienne

Associate Professor, Executive Director, and Academic Director within the Maine State University System - Monson Seminar.
Visiting professor 2025-2026 from September 15 to October 15, 2025.
Inviting professor: François Specq

Audrey Rieber, senior lecturer (HDR) in philosophy at ENS de Lyon and member of IHRIM, has published Philosopher avec l’histoire de l’art (Philosophising about Art History).

Delphine Antoine-Mahut, professor of modern philosophy history at ENS de Lyon, and Samuel Lézé, senior lecturer in anthropology of science at ENS de Lyon, both members of IRHIM, have published Metaphysics and the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France.

Professor of English at Northwestern University
Visiting professor 2023-2024 from18 April to 1^st May 2024
Inviting professor: Lacy Rumsey

Associate Professor in French literature in the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University (Evanston).
Visiting Professor 2024-2025 – from 20^th of March to 20^th of April, 2024
Inviting Professor: Lucy Rumsey

On Thursday, March 20, 2025, PhD student Noémie Dumont from the IHRIM laboratory at ENS de Lyon distinguished herself at the local finals of the international Francophone competition “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” by winning the jury’s second prize. She has thus qualified for the regional finals of the competition, which will take place by mid-May 2025.

By Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise. 

Sophie Chiari is a university professor in english literature, IHRIM laboratory member

Edited by Vanessa Guignery, Professor of contemporary English literature and postcolonial literature at ENS de Lyon. Published on March 2024 by University Press of Mississippi.

By Delphine Antoine-Mahut, Professor at ENS de Lyon, member of the Institute of History of Representations and Ideas in Modernities (IHRIM). Published on October 13, 2023.

Professor, Department of Contemporary History, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - April 28 to June 30, 2023
Inviting Professor: Samuel Lézé

Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Sussex, UK
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - April 17 to 27, 2023
Inviting Professor: François Specq

Professor, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Visiting Professor 2022-23 - January 8 to February 9, 2023
Inviting Researcher: Vanessa Guignery

Visiting Professor 2021-22 - Concordia University
Inviting Professors : Anne Pellois, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, (IHRIM) and Layla Roesler (CERCC)

"A dominant but deeply undertheorized feature of serious contemporary writing is its fragmentary nature. This book powerfully, intelligently, and rigorously fills that lack (lack being, of course, what fragmentation is forever exploring)." David Shields, Pr. at the Univ.of Washington.