Julien ZANETTA
- Position
- Associate Professor
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julien.zanetta@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- French Literature [FRAN-01/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/julien.zanetta (personal record)
Office hours
a.a. 2026/27
Friday
10:30-12:30
Students are asked to contact the professor beforehand in order to book a time slot.
(Office n°213)
Teaching activity current year
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ MODERNE E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [R352]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)
SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LM5]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
Teaching activity previous years
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ MODERNE E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [R352]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Letteratura francese [FRAN-01/A]
- Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
- STORIA DELL'ARTE MODERNA [L-ART/02]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa
- Known languages
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Francese
(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Italiano (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Tedesco (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
Spagnolo (scritto: base parlato: base)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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– Membro del comitato editoriale di "L'Année Baudelaire"
– Dal 2013, membro del gruppo di ricerca International Network for Comparative Humanities (Princeton University & Notre-Dame University)
– Dal 2019, membro del Centro di ricerca Prospéro (Università Saint-Louis, Bruxelles)
– Dal 2019, membro del gruppo di ricerca “Baudelaire” dell’Istituto per i Testi e i Manoscritti Moderni (Institut des textes et manuscrits modernes, Francia).
– Dal 2019, membro del gruppo di ricerca per la nuova edizione della corrispondenza di Baudelaire pubblicata online sulla piattaforma E-Man (Plateforme d’édition de manuscrits et d’archives numériques)
– 2015-2020: membro del gruppo di ricerca Landscapes of Realism per la collana “Comparative History of Literature in European Languages” – Borsa europea del Leverhulme Trust.
– 2013-2015: membro del gruppo di ricerca Text Action Space – Exploring Text and Memory (Università di Aarhus)
– 2011-2013: membro del gruppo di ricerca Text Action Space – Exploring Text and Emotions (Università di Aarhus)
Publication highlights
Julien Zanetta À proportion. Eugène Delacroix et la mesure de l'homme , Lormont, Bord de l'eau (ISBN 9782356879622)
2023,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5034320
Julien Zanetta L'Hôpital de la peinture. Baudelaire, la critique d'art et son lexique , Paris, Rue d'Ulm (ISBN 978-2-7288-0789-5)
2022,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5034327
Julien Zanetta The French debate about Gustave Courbet’s pictorial realism and the dialogue between literature and art in the mid-nineteenth century , Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism in a Comparative Perspective, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, pp. 489-501 (ISBN 9789027208064)
2021,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5034328
Julien Zanetta Niveurmôrre. Versions françaises du Corbeau au XIXe siècle , Genève, Droz (ISBN 978-2-600-06031-8) (ISSN 0073-2397)
2020,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5034372
Julien Zanetta Baudelaire, la mémoire et les arts , Paris, Classiques Garnier, vol. 5 (ISBN 978-2-406-09045-8) (ISSN 2428-0240)
DOI 2019,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5034642
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Julien Zanetta (Geneva, 1984) holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Geneva (2014). From 2015 to 2017 he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship to carry out his research in the United States (University of Michigan / NYU) and from 2017 to 2019 he contributed to the curation of the correspondence between Odilon Redon and Andries Bonger. His work focuses mainly on Charles Baudelaire - to whom he dedicated his doctorate and was involved in the curatorship of his Œuvres complètes for the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade -, art criticism and aesthetics in the 19th century, the relationship between literature and painting, and the work of Jean Starobinski. He taught history of French literature at the Université Saint-Louis - Brussels and at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) from 2019 to 2023.
He is the author of five monographs - Baudelaire, la mémoire et les arts (Classiques Garnier, 2019) ; D'après nature. Biographies d'artistes au XIXe siècle (Hermann, 2019) ; Niveurmôrre. Versions françaises du Corbeau au XIXe siècle (Droz, 2020) ; L'Hôpital de la peinture (Rue d'Ulm, 2022) ; À proportion. Eugène Delacroix et la mesure de l'homme (Bord de l'eau, 2023) -, a translation of essays on aesthetics and literature by William Hazlitt (Sentiment et raison, Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019), and has edited several volumes on litterature and aesthetics (Exploring Text and Emotions, 2014; Haute fidélité: Jean Starobinski, 2018; Lire les Salons de Baudelaire, 2023)
He holds the National Scientific Qualification as a first level professor 10/H1 (French language, literature and culture, 2025).
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