Hervé Picherit
Associate Professor — PhD, Stanford
Associate Professor, French Studies

Contact
- E-mail: picherit@utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-6874
- Office: HRH 3.104B
- Office Hours: T, TH 1-2:30 & by appt.
- Campus Mail Code: B7600
Interests
20th century French literature, French cinema, the novel, the avant-garde, philosophies of fiction
Biography
I received my PhD in French Studies from Stanford University (2008) and have been a member of the Department of French at Italian at UT since 2012. The questions framing my research interests are about individual and shared strategies of aesthetic self-fashioning, in particular those that individuals or groups adopt in the face of traumatic upheavals. In pursuit of these questions, I have explored the fields of twentieth century French literature, the novel, film, and the avant-garde. My book Le Livre des Écorchés: Proust, Céline et la Grande Guerre (CNRS Éditions, 2016) explores the very different approaches at self-fashioning and at the creation of collective identity that the novelists Marcel Proust and Louis-Ferdinand Céline deploy in reaction to the material and cultural devastation of the Great War. I have also published articles on film — Chris Marker, Alfred Hitchcock, the actress Arletty, Louis Feuillade’s film serial Les Vampires — as well as avant-garde figures such as Alfred Jarry, André Breton and Georges Hugnet.