Marie-Luce DEMONET - CV

Marie-Luce Demonet, Professor of French literature and senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (105-2015), taught at the Université de Provence, then in Clermont-Ferrand, Poitiers and Tours (since 2001). Specializing in connections among literature, languages and semiotic theories during the Renaissance (Les Voix du signe, 1992), she has published more than 30 articles on Rabelais, coordinated the digital edition of his novels on the Internet (since 1995), and published 23 conference proceedings. She has also published two books, more thant 40 articles and essays on Montaigne. She takes interest in transformations of philosophical, juridical and social vocabulary and in questions of theory and literary aesthetics, and about the status of fiction and sign theory in Early Modern times. She was the Dean of the Center for Renaissance Studies in Tours (2003-2007), the Director of the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, Universities of Tours and Orleans, 2012-2014), and is the Head of the "Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes" team: the program is devoted to conducting research consisting of indexing text and image, extracting images from scanned pages, acquiring significant corpora of  texts (TEI encoded). Her major project in the field of digital humanities is the exhaustive digital edition of the "Bordeaux copy" of the Essays and the virtual “Montaigne library”.