Frederic Monneyron

Frederic Monneyron, born in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, is a French writer and academic.
In his teens, Frederic Monneyron lived in Britain and Sweden, more recently in Africa, Morocco and the United States. He is currently living in Montpellier, France.
BIOGRAPHY
He received his Doctorat d’Etat en science politique from the University of Montpellier I in 1984 and his Doctorat d’Etat ès lettres et sciences humaines from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1986. He taught at the University of California, the University of Abidjan, and the University of Marrakesh between 1980 and 1988, then at the University of Burgundy, the University of South Florida and the Stendhal University, Grenoble between 1988 and 1998. From 1998 on, he is a full Professor in comparative and general literature at the University of Perpignan-Via Domitia and is the head of the MBA “Fashion industries and luxury goods” at Mod’Art International, Paris, coming to teach sociology of fashion in the English-taught programme. He also teaches sociology of fashion at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and at the University of Barcelona and is a Distinguished visiting professor at the University of South Florida, the University of Milan and the University of Bologna. Besides, he is an expert to the European Commission in Brussels (research directorate). His works focused on sexuality, gender relations (Thèse d’Etat es lettres et sciences humaines : L’Imaginaire androgyne ; L’Ecriture de la jalousie ; Séduire), clothes, fashion and luxury (La Frivolité essentielle ; La Mode et ses enjeux, La Sociologie de la mode, La Photographie de mode, Luxe) on the one hand ; on the ideas of nation and race (La Nation aujourd’hui, L’Imaginaire racial, L’Idée de race), on Europe (Thèse d’Etat de science politique, Les Neutres et l’intégration européenne) and the USA (Au Cœur des Etats-Unis) on the other hand.
He is the author of more than twenty books translated in major languages and is the editor of around fifteen collective works among which five conferences he organized at the Cerisy International Center (L’Androgyne, La Jalousie, La Misogynie, Le Masculin, Le Vêtement.
He is also a novelist (Dossier diplomatique) and a short stories writer (Sans Nom et autres nouvelles) and a translator from English into French (A.K. Coomaraswamy, E. Wharton, P.G. Wodehouse)
On topics such as fashion, luxury, sexuality and seduction, he granted numerous interviews to the magazines and the radio and appeared on television programmes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Essays
*L'Androgyne romantique. Du mythe au mythe littéraire (Grenoble, ELLUG, 1994, ISBN 2 902709 88 9; 2009)
*L'Androgyne décadent. Mythe, figure, fantasmes (Grenoble, ELLUG, 1996, ISBN 2 902709 94 3; 2011)
*L'Écriture de la jalousie (Grenoble, ELLUG, 1996, ISBN 2 84310 003 8)
*Bisexualité et littérature. Autour de D. H. Lawrence et Virginia Woolf, (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6363-0)
*Séduire, l’imaginaire de la séduction de Don Giovanni à Mick Jagger (Paris, PUF, 1997, ISBN 2 13 0481108; 2000)
*La Nation aujourd'hui. Formes et mythes (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000, ISBN 2-7384-9850-7)
*La Frivolité essentielle. Du vêtement et de la mode (Paris, PUF, 2001, ISBN 2 13 051653 X; paperback Quadrige, 2008, 2014)
*Mythes et littérature (Paris, PUF, 2002, ISBN 2 13 053036 2; 2012, with Joël Thomas, translated in Spanish)
*L'imaginaire racial (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004, ISBN 2-7475-6846-6)
*La Mode et ses enjeux (Paris, Klincksieck, 2005, ISBN 2-252-03533-1; 2010, translated in Spanish and Portuguese)
*L'Automobile. Un imaginaire contemporain (Paris, Imago, 2006, ISBN 2-84952-030-6; with Joël Thomas)
*La Sociologie de la mode (Paris, PUF, 2006, ISBN 2 13 055517 9; 2010, 2013, 2015, translated in Japanese and Italian)
*Sociologie de l'imaginaire, with Patrick Legros, Patrick Tacussel et Jean-Bruno Renard (Paris, Armand Colin, coll. Cursus, 2006, ISBN 2-200-26663-4, translated in Portuguese)
*Le Monde hippie. De l'imaginaire psychédélique à la révolution informatique (Paris, Imago, 2008 ISBN 978-2-84952-061-1, with Martine Xiberras)
*La Photographie de mode. Un art souverain (Paris, PUF, coll. Perspectives critiques, 2010, ISBN 978-2-13-057874-1)
*Au cœur des États-Unis. Mythes, imaginaires et fictions (Paris, Michel Houdiard Éditeur, 2011,ISBN 978-2-35692-064-5)
*L'Idée de race. Histoire d'une fiction (Paris, Berg International, 2012, ISBN 978-2-917191-48-4, with Gérard Siary)
*Vanity. Mode/Fotografie aus der Sammlung F.C. Gunlach (Wien, Kunsthalle für Moderne Kunst, Stiftung F.C. Gundlach, 2012, ISBN 3869842709, mit Synne Genzmer)
*La Séduction, (UPPR, 2015, ISBN 978-2-37168-023-4)
*La Mode, (UPPR, 2015, ISBN 978-2-37168-022-7)
*Luxe (Paris, Michel de Maule, 2015, with Patrick Mathieu)
Editor
*L'Androgyne dans la littérature (Paris, Albin-Michel, 1990, ISBN 2-226-04018-8; Dervy-Livre, 2000, translated in Japanese)
*Misogynies (Paris, Deux Temps/Tierce, 1993, ISBN 2-903144-87-7)
*La Jalousie (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1996, ISBN 2-7384-4293-5)
*Le Masculin, Identité, fictions, dissémination (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998, ISBN 2-7384-7017-3)
*Le Vêtement (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2001, ISBN 2-7475-1740-3)
*Vêtement et littérature (PUP, 2001, ISBN 2-908912-89-9)
*L'Entre-deux de la mode (Paris, L'Harmattan/Bergamo University Press, 2004, ISBN 2-7475-6789-3)
*Automobile et littérature (PUP, 2005, ISBN 2-914518-65-X)
*La France dans le regard des États-Unis/France as Seen by the United States (PUP/PUPV, 2007, ISBN 2-914518-92-7)
*Métaphysique de la mode (Paris/Bruxelles, Éditions du Cercle d'art, 2008, ISBN 9782702208663)
*Des mythes politiques (Paris, Imago, 2010, ISBN 978-2-84952-087-1, translated in Croatian)
*Sport et imaginaire (PULM, 2013, ISBN 978-2-36781-032-4)
Prefaces
*Hela Ouardi (dir), L'Androgyne en littérature (Simpact, 2009, ISBN 978-2-915611-38-0)
*Michel Dion et Mariette Julien, Éthique de la mode féminine (PUF, 2010, ISBN 978-2-13-057815-4)
Fiction
*Sans nom et autres nouvelles (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999, ISBN 2-7384-7291-5)
*Dossier diplomatique (Paris, Michel de Maule, 2014, ISBN 978-2-87623-557-1)
Translations (from English into French)
*A. K. Coomaraswamy, La philosophie chrétienne et orientale de l’art (Pardès, 1990, ISBN 2-86714-076-5)
*Edith Wharton, Voyage au Maroc (Paris/Monaco, Ed. du Rocher, 1996, ISBN 2-268-02220-X; rééd. Paris, Gallimard-L'Etrangère, 1998, puis Paris, Gallimard-L’imaginaire, 2001)
*P.G. Wodehouse, Courtes histoires de green (Paris, Michel de Maule, 2011, ISBN 978-2-87623-281-5)
Quotation
« Quand on change de vêtement, on change de comportement ». Excerpt from Libération - September 1, 2001.

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