About the L'AMo

A research centre for Literature attached to the Department of Literature and Languages at the University of Nantes, the AMo has been granted the status of Research Laboratory [Equipe d’Accueil EA 4276] by the High Council for Evaluating Research and Education (HCERES).

Today, the AMo is composed of 40 permanent members, from a wide range of departments at the University of Nantes, including Classical and Modern Literature, Italian, English Studies, and Foreign Languages and Cultures [13 Professors; 24 lecturers, including 4 HDR, 1 PRCE and 1 PRAG]. It also includes 26 associate members, 5 emeritus professors, 38 doctoral students, 1 administrative secretary and 1 project engineer.

The laboratory’s research program is focused on the interactions between the Ancient and the Modern. This main theme is subdivided into three axes:

First Axis: Representation, Identity, History

Directors: Françoise Rubellin, Régis Tettamanzi

The Other and the Subject in History

Research Professors:

Associate Members:

J.-Y. Boriaud (Univ. Nantes)
J. Garapon (Univ. Nantes)
B. Mineo (Univ. Nantes)

Theatre and Cultural History

Research Professors:

Associate Members:

P. Beaucé
Th. Belleguic (Univ. Laval, Québec)
P. Berthier (Univ. Nantes)
S. Carandini (Univ. Rome – La Sapienza)
J. Clarke (Univ. Durham)
D. Connon (Univ. Swansea, Pays de Galles)
S. Ledda (Univ. Rouen)
R. Legrand (Univ. Paris-Sorbonne)
B. Porot (Univ. Reims)
D. Quéro (Univ.Paris-Sorbonne)
J. Ravel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
P. Taïeb (Univ. Montpellier)
J.-Cl. Yon (Univ. Versailles-Saint-Quentin)

Second Axis: The Transmission of Texts and Ideas

Directors: Pierre Maréchaux, Gerhardt Stenger

Philology, Aesthetics, and Hermeneutics

Research Professors:

Associate Members:

V. Dominguez
-*J. Pigeaud (Univ. Nantes)

Literature, Philosophy, Knowledge

Research Professors:

Associate Members

Maëlle Levacher

Third Axis: Modernity, Translations and Theories

Directors: Philippe Forest, Christine Lombez

Theories and Counter-Theories of Modernity

Research Professors:

Associate Members:

M. Blain (Univ. Nantes)
A. Peyronie (Univ. Nantes)
P. Masson (Univ. Nantes)
J.L. Steinmetz (Univ. Nantes)

Translations, Rewritings and Receptions

Research Professors:

Associate Members:

Cl. Le Blanc (Univ. Paris 3)
R. Grutman (Univ. Ottawa)
K. Lievois (Artesis University College, Anvers)
D. Tokarev (Institut de littérature russe de l’Académie des Sciences de Russie)

The AMo is dedicated to combining research with the teaching delivered at Master’s level by the University of Nantes. This intersection takes place in the classes taught at M1 and M2, as well as during seminars, to which doctoral students are encouraged to contribute.

The AMo’s History

Founded in 1985 by Mr. Ponnau at Nantes, Research Laboratory EA 1164 was first known as TLI, or “Texts, Languages and Imaginations,” and focused its studies on the question of “The Margins of Literature.”
In 2008, the members of the old EA 3258 (Modernity of the Antiquity) were integrated into the laboratory, which took on the new name of TLI-MMA (“Texts, Languages, and Imaginations – Margins, Modernity, Antiquity”), thus becoming EA 4276. However, its internal structure was still based on teams of researchers divided according to their chosen period or field.
The Literature Research Laboratory at the University of Nantes was reorganized in 2012: the EA chose to implement a single research structure. Its new title [L’AMo, “Posterity of the Antiquity, Genealogies of Modernity”] replaced the juxtaposition of the two preceding units with the federative field of study of the Ancient and the Modern; both poles of this main theme are to be apprehended through the relations that oppose or unite them (continuities and ruptures, transformations and transfers).
Under its new denomination, the AMo is subdivided into three transversal axes that unite professors, researchers and doctoral students regardless of their field or period of specialisation. This structure reflects the variety of our research and breaches the chronological divisions that characterised the teams of TLI-MMA.

The AMo in Figures

Statistiques

Tenured members: 88
- Research Professors: 40
  - 13 University Professors (PR)
  - 24 Lecturers (MDC), 4 of whom are Authorized to Direct Research (HDR)
  - 1 PRAG (Associate Professor) and 1 PRCE
- Doctoral or Habilitation students: 38

Associate members: 26
- University Professors (in office or Emeritus) of the University of Nantes: 10
- University Professors from other French universities: 10
- University Professors from foreign universities: 6