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Arnaud Schmitt
Arnaud Schmitt is a professor at the University of Bordeaux. His field of research is American literature and he has also worked extensively on the concepts of “autofiction” and “self-narration.” He has recently published a new book entitled The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real (Routledge, 2017) and is the co-recipient (with Stefan Kjerkegaard, Aarhus University) of the 2016 Hogan Prize for an outstanding essay published in a volume of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
Subjects: Cognitive Psychology, Literature, Philosophy
Biography
Arnaud Schmitt is a professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. His field of research is American literature and narratology, and he has also worked extensively (a book and several articles, both in English and French) on the concepts of “autofiction” and “self-narration.” He has recently published a new book entitled The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real (Routledge, 2017) and is the co-recipient (with Stefan Kjerkegaard, Aarhus University) of the 2016 Hogan Prize for an outstanding essay published in a volume of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies (for the essay “Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle: A Real Life in a Novel”)Education
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PhD, University of Bordeaux (2003)
Habilitation qualifications, University of Orleans (2012)
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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- Autobiography
- Autofiction
- Narratology
- Contemporary American and British Literature
- Cognitive Studies
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Arnaud Schmitt (Autofiction and Cognitive Poetics)
Published: May 04, 2017