Frederic Monneyron is a French writer and academic.
Life
Born on March 25th, 1954 in Paris to Swiss descent, Monneyron spent his youth in the United Kingdom and Sweden, later living in Africa, Morocco and the United States. Monneyron currently lives in Montpellier, France.
Monneyron 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 Cadi Ayyad University between 1980 and 1988. Monneyron taught at the University of Burgundy, the University of South Florida and Stendhal University between 1988 and 1998.
Monneyron 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, political science and aesthetics at the University Paul Valéry-Montpellier and sociology of fashion at the University of Geneva 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, Le Luxe, L'Imaginaire du luxe, Fashion. a Theory) 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 CÃ
Âur des Etats-Unis) on the other hand.
He is the author of more than thirty 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, Le Voyage d'un séducteur, Le Nihiliste, Après le désir, Une vie de piscines, Helter Skelter...), a short stories writer (Sans Nom et autres nouvelles), and a translator from English into French (A. K. Coomaraswamy, E. Wharton, P. G. Wodehouse, T.D. Allman)
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, ; 2009)
- L'Androgyne décadent. Mythe, figure, fantasmes (Grenoble, ELLUG, 1996, ; 2011)
- L'ÃÂcriture de la jalousie (Grenoble, ELLUG, 1996, )
- Bisexualité et littérature. Autour de D. H. Lawrence et Virginia Woolf, (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998, )
- Séduire, l'imaginaire de la séduction de Don Giovanni àMick Jagger (Paris, PUF, 1997, ; 2000; Paris, Imago, 2016, )
- La Nation aujourd'hui. Formes et mythes (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2000, )
- La Frivolité essentielle. Du vêtement et de la mode (Paris, PUF, 2001, ; paperback Quadrige, 2008, 2014)
- Mythes et littérature (Paris, PUF, 2002, ; 2012, 2019 with Joël Thomas, translated in Spanish)
- L'imaginaire racial (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004, )
- La Mode et ses enjeux (Paris, Klincksieck, 2005, ; 2010, translated in Spanish and Portuguese)
- L'Automobile. Un imaginaire contemporain (Paris, Imago, 2006, ; with Joël Thomas)
- La Sociologie de la mode (Paris, PUF, 2006, ; 2010, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, translated in Japanese, Italian and Spanish)
- Sociologie de l'imaginaire, with Patrick Legros, Patrick Tacussel et Jean-Bruno Renard (Paris, Armand Colin, coll. Cursus, 2006, , translated in Portuguese and Italian)
- Le Monde hippie. De l'imaginaire psychédélique àla révolution informatique (Paris, Imago, 2008 , with Martine Xiberras)
- La Photographie de mode. Un art souverain (Paris, PUF, coll. Perspectives critiques, 2010, )
- Au cÃ
Âur des ÃÂtats-Unis. Mythes, imaginaires et fictions (Paris, Michel Houdiard ÃÂditeur, 2011,)
- L'Idée de race. Histoire d'une fiction (Paris, Berg International, 2012, , with Gérard Siary)
- Vanity. Mode/Fotografie aus der Sammlung F.C. Gunlach (Wien, Kunsthalle für Moderne Kunst, Stiftung F.C. Gundlach, 2012, , mit Synne Genzmer)
- La Séduction, (UPPR, 2015, ; 2016)
- La Mode, (UPPR, 2015, ; 2016)
- Le Luxe, (UPPR, 2015, ; 2017)
- L'Imaginaire du luxe (Paris, Imago, 2015, with Patrick Mathieu, translated in Chinese)
- Luxe (Paris, Michel de Maule, 2017, with Patrick Mathieu, )
- Mythe et nation (UPPR, 2017, )
- Des sexes et des genres (UPPR, 2019, )
- Mythe et race (Entremises, 2021, ())
- De la beauté (Entremises, 2022, ())
- Nations, races, sexes. Pérennité et changement de mythes (Brussels, EME, 2022, ())
- Fashion, A Theory (OpenCulture, 2025 ())
- De la célébrité (SHS Editions, 2025 ())
- Philosophie de la décoration d'intérieur, (Montréal, Liber, 2025 ())
- La Beaute peut-elle sauver le monde? (La Fabrique, 2026 (ISBN 979-1043128011))
- Joli visage (La Fabrique, 2026 (ISBN 979-1043128004), with Jacques Sojcher)
Editor
- L'Androgyne dans la littérature (Paris, Albin-Michel, 1990, ; Dervy-Livre, 2000, translated in Japanese)
- Misogynies (Paris, Deux Temps/Tierce, 1993, )
- La Jalousie (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1996, )
- Le Masculin, Identité, fictions, dissémination (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998, )
- Le Vêtement (Paris, L'Harmattan, 2001, )
- Vêtement et littérature (PUP, 2001, )
- L'Entre-deux de la mode (Paris, L'Harmattan/Bergamo University Press, 2004, )
- Automobile et littérature (PUP, 2005, )
- La France dans le regard des ÃÂtats-Unis/France as Seen by the United States (PUP/PUPV, 2007, )
- Métaphysique de la mode (Paris/Bruxelles, ÃÂditions du Cercle d'art, 2008, )
- Des mythes politiques (Paris, Imago, 2010, , translated in Croatian)
- Sport et imaginaire (PULM, 2013, )
- Le Surf et ses imaginaires (PULM, 2025 (ISBN-13 978-2367815572))
Prefaces
- Hela Ouardi (dir), L'Androgyne en littérature (Simpact, 2009, )
- Michel Dion et Mariette Julien, ÃÂthique de la mode féminine (PUF, 2010, )
- Gilbert Durand, Chaque âge àses plaisirs (Entremises, 2023, ))
Fiction
- Sans nom et autres nouvelles (Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999, )
- Dossier diplomatique (Paris, Michel de Maule, 2014, )
- Le Voyage d'un séducteur (CSIPP, 2018, )
- Le Nihiliste (Paris, Sydney Laurent, 2019, ())
- Après le désir (KDP, 2019 ())
- Une vie de piscines (Entremises, 2023 ())
- Helter Skelter... (Culturea, 2024 ())
Translations (from English into French)
- A. K. Coomaraswamy, La Philosophie chrétienne et orientale de l'art (Pardès, 1990, )
- Edith Wharton, Voyage au Maroc (Paris/Monaco, Ed. du Rocher, 1996, ; rééd. Paris, Gallimard-L'Etrangère, 1998, puis Paris, Gallimard-L'imaginaire, 2001)
- P.G. Wodehouse, Courtes histoires de green (Paris, Michel de Maule, 2011, )
- T.D. Allman, La Floride, coeur révélateur des Etats-Unis (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2019, )
Quotation
ë Quand on change de vêtement, on change de comportement û. Excerpt from Libération - September 1, 2001.
References
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