Frederic Monneyron
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.
His works focused on sexuality, gender relations, clothes, fashion and luxury on the one hand; on the ideas of nation and race, on Europe and the USA 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
He is also a novelist, a short stories writer, and a translator from English into French
On topics such as fashion, luxury, sexuality and seduction, he granted numerous interviews to the magazines and the radio and appeared on television programmes.
Essays
- L'Androgyne romantique. Du mythe au mythe littéraire
- L'Androgyne décadent. Mythe, figure, fantasmes
- L'Écriture de la jalousie
- Bisexualité et littérature. Autour de D. H. Lawrence et Virginia Woolf,
- Séduire, l'imaginaire de la séduction de Don Giovanni à Mick Jagger
- La Nation aujourd'hui. Formes et mythes
- La Frivolité essentielle. Du vêtement et de la mode
- Mythes et littérature
- L'imaginaire racial
- La Mode et ses enjeux
- L'Automobile. Un imaginaire contemporain
- La Sociologie de la mode
- Sociologie de l'imaginaire, with Patrick Legros, Patrick Tacussel et Jean-Bruno Renard
- Le Monde hippie. De l'imaginaire psychédélique à la révolution informatique
- La Photographie de mode. Un art souverain
- Au cœur des États-Unis. Mythes, imaginaires et fictions
- L'Idée de race. Histoire d'une fiction
- Vanity. Mode/Fotografie aus der Sammlung F.C. Gunlach
- La Séduction,
- La Mode,
- Le Luxe,
- L'Imaginaire du luxe
- Luxe
- Mythe et nation
- Des sexes et des genres Mythe et race )De la beauté )Nations, races, sexes. Pérennité et changement de mythes )Fashion, A Theory )De la célébrité )Philosophie de la décoration d'intérieur, )La Beaute peut-elle sauver le monde?
- ''Joli visage''
Editor
- L'Androgyne dans la littérature
- Misogynies
- La Jalousie
- Le Masculin, Identité, fictions, dissémination
- Le Vêtement
- Vêtement et littérature
- L'Entre-deux de la mode
- Automobile et littérature
- La France dans le regard des États-Unis/France as Seen by the United States
- Métaphysique de la mode
- Des mythes politiques
- Sport et imaginaire
- ''Le Surf et ses imaginaires''
Prefaces
- Hela Ouardi, L'Androgyne en littérature
- Michel Dion et Mariette Julien, Éthique de la mode féminine
- Gilbert Durand, Chaque âge à ses plaisirs )
Fiction
- Sans nom et autres nouvelles
- Dossier diplomatique
- Le Voyage d'un séducteur
- Le Nihiliste )Après le désir )Une vie de piscines )Helter Skelter... )
Translations (from English into French)
- A. K. Coomaraswamy, La Philosophie chrétienne et orientale de l'art
- Edith Wharton, Voyage au Maroc
- P.G. Wodehouse, Courtes histoires de green
- T.D. Allman, ''La Floride, coeur révélateur des Etats-Unis''