Jean-Paul Engélibert

Biography

Jean-Paul Engélibert is Professor of Comparative Literature at Bordeaux-Montaigne University. He devoted an essay to J. M. Coetzee, Aux avant-postes du progrès. Essai sur l’oeuvre de J. M. Coetzee (Limoges, Pulim, 2003) and edited the collective volume J. M. Coetzee et la littérature européenne. Ecrire contre la barbarie, P.U. Rennes, 2007. Latest published works: Apocalypses sans royaume. Politique des fictions de la fin du monde, XXe- XXIe siècles, Paris, Classics Garnier, 2013, and with Raphaëlle Guided, Utopie et catastrophe. Revers et renaissances de l’utopie, XVIe-XXIe siècles, P.U. Rennes, “La Licorne”, n ° 114, 2015. He has authored of a fictional text, La Lumière de Tchernobyl, Bordeaux, L’Ire des marges, 2016, and leads the research project of the Telem team in Bordeaux- Montaigne “Poetics and Politics” since 2015. email: Jean-Paul.Engelibert@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr