Isabelle Pantin
professor
DEPARTMENT LITERATURE AND LANGUAGES
Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)
France
Biography
Isabelle Pantin, professor in the Literature and Languages ​​Department of the École Normale Supérieure, teaches Renaissance Literature and Book History. Member of the IHMC (UMR 8066, CNRS-ENS-Paris 1), of which she is the assistant director, she participates in the program "Knowledge, cultural goods and information", and leads the "Group of doctoral studies on knowledge in the Renaissance. She is also associated with a project of the University of Cambridge (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Whipple Museum): "Diagrams, Figures and the Transformation of Astronomy, 1450-1650". Previously, she was a resident at the National Library, director of the Jourdan and Montrouge libraries (1985-1989), lecturer at Paris III (1989-1995), then professor at the universities of Le Mans and Paris X -Nanterre (1995-2007).
Research Interest
His research focuses on the relationship between literature, philosophy and science, and cultural circulation.
Publications
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"Kepler and Lucien: extraordinary journeys to the ludus philosophicus", in Chr. Ligota and Letizia Panizza eds, Lucian of Samosata Vivus and Redivivus , London, Warburg Institute, 2007, p. 115-127.
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" Momus or the tribulations of ugliness (Leon Battista Alberti)", in Claude Leroy and Liliane Picciola dir. Metamorphoses of ugliness, Littérales (Paris X-Nanterre), n ° 36, 2005, p. 59-72.
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"The lawsuit in poetry. Discussions on the status of philosophical poetry in the Renaissance ", Journal of Human Sciences , No. 276, 2004-4, p. 45-62.
