{"id":4183,"date":"2019-07-09T11:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T15:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/grll\/?post_type=people&p=4183"},"modified":"2025-01-27T12:40:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:40:58","slug":"daniel-desormeaux","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/modern-languages-literatures\/directory\/daniel-desormeaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Desormeaux"},"featured_media":4554,"template":"","role":[10436],"filter":[74],"class_list":["post-4183","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","role-aa-faculty","filter-french"],"acf":[],"post_meta_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1737999523:726"],"_edit_last":["726"],"ecpt_people_alpha":["Desormeaux"],"ecpt_position":["William D. and Robin Mayer Professor, Head of the French Subdivision"],"ecpt_degrees":["PhD, Emory University; M.A., Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al; M.A. Johns Hopkins University"],"ecpt_expertise":["French and Caribbean literature and thought of the \u201clong\u201d 19th century; Haitian Revolution, race, and slavery; comparative analysis of Caribbean literature and religion; history of the book and French literary history; Fin-de-Si\u00e8cle literature and transatlantic anthropology"],"ecpt_phone":["410-516-7727"],"ecpt_fax":["410-516-5358"],"ecpt_email":["ddd@jhu.edu"],"ecpt_office":["Gilman Hall 482"],"ecpt_bio":["

Daniel Desormeaux is the William D. and Robin Mayer Professor of Arts and Sciences. Prior to his appointment at Johns Hopkins in 2019, Daniel Desormeaux held tenured positions at the University of Chicago and the University of Kentucky, which he joined after beginning his career at Dartmouth College. He has been a Visiting Professor of French & Francophone Literature at Universit\u00e9 du Mans (France) and has received numerous research awards, including a National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Fellowship (2008-2009) and a residential fellowship at the Franke Institute for the Humanities (2016-2017).<\/p>"],"_thumbnail_id":["4554"],"ecpt_cv":["http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/grll\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2019\/07\/Daniel-Desormeaux-CV.pdf"],"ecpt_books_cond":["on"],"_oembed_8d9cc92bb8959ba1de495243317178f1":["{{unknown}}"],"_oembed_fc850c5106c9af88b68cb9264f4e0e50":["{{unknown}}"],"ecpt_publications":["

Monographs<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Alexandre Dumas: Fabrique d\u2019immortalit\u00e9<\/em>. (Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2014).<\/p>\r\n

La Figure du bibliomane: histoire du livre et strat\u00e9gie litt\u00e9raire au XIXe si\u00e8cle <\/em>(Flaubert, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Nerval, Stendhal, Anatole France). Saint-Genouph: A.-G. Nizet, 2001.<\/p>\r\n

Critical Editions<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Th\u00e9mistocle-\u00c9paminondas Labasterre<\/em> (Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Marcelin). Paris: Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Textes Fran\u00e7ais Modernes, 2017.<\/p>\r\n

M\u00e9moires du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Toussaint Louverture<\/em>. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2011.<\/p>\r\n

Edited Volumes and Journal Issues<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Les Biographies litt\u00e9raires : th\u00e9ories, pratiques et perspectives nouvelles<\/em>. Eds. Philippe Desan & Daniel Desormeaux (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018).<\/p>\r\n

Haiti Beyond commemorations, Politics, and History<\/em>. Journal L\u2019Esprit Cr\u00e9ateur <\/em>56.1 (2016).<\/p>\r\n

Race et Litt\u00e9rature \u00e0 la fin du XIXe si\u00e8cle<\/em>. Journal Nineteenth Century French Studies <\/em>(in preparation).<\/p>\r\n

Selected Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\"\u00c9pitaphe d'esclave en L\u00e9onidas dans Le Syst\u00e8me colonial d\u00e9voil\u00e9 (1814) de Pomp\u00e9e Valentin de Vastey,\u201d eds. Claudie Bernard et Claude Millet, L'Histoire \u00e9pitaphe<\/em>, Publications du centre Seebacher, Universit\u00e9 Paris Diderot, 2018. http:\/\/seebacher.lac.univ-paris-diderot.fr\/bibliotheque\/items\/show\/42<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\"Lire les biographies d\u2019Alexandre Dumas,\" in Les Biographies litt\u00e9raires : th\u00e9ories, <\/em>pratiques et perspectives nouvelles<\/em>, \u00e9ds. Philippe Desan & Daniel Desormeaux. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018. 167-186.<\/p>\r\n

\"Le facteur litt\u00e9raire dans de L\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 des races humaines d\u2019Ant\u00e9nor Firmin,\u201d L\u2019Esprit Cr\u00e9ateur<\/em> 56. 1 (2016) : 24-39.<\/p>\r\n

\"Sand et le roman feuilleton: le cas des Beaux messieurs de Bois-Dor\u00e9.\" George Sand et le journalisme<\/em>, ed. Marie-\u00c8ve Th\u00e9renty. Saint-\u00c9tienne: Presses Universitaires de Saint-\u00c9tienne. 2011. 203-217.<\/p>\r\n

\"Passage aux Livres dans M\u00fbr \u00e0 crever,\" in Typo\/Topo\/Po\u00e9thique: sur Frank\u00e9tienne<\/em>, Jean Jonassaint. Paris: \u00c9ditions L\u2019Harmattan 2008. 37-56.<\/p>\r\n

\"The First of the (Black) Memorialists: Toussaint Louverture,\" Yale French Studies <\/em>107 (Spring 2005): 131-145.<\/p>\r\n

\"Sans foi ni loi : (Nerval et Marx) pour ou contre le roman-feuilleton,\" Les Lettres <\/em>Romanes<\/em> 58. 1-2 (2004): 27-54.<\/p>\r\n

\"Le Mythe de l\u2019original: la main de Flaubert,\" L\u2019Esprit Cr\u00e9ateur<\/em> 41. 2 (2001): 40-52.<\/p>\r\n

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As a scholar of French who taps into the Caribbean cultural archipelago he was raised in, Daniel Desormeaux works as a comparatist primarily on French and Francophone literatures and cultures of the long nineteenth century. His versatile research agenda addresses a range of global issues and texts, in particular the historical and anthropological link between French and Caribbean literature and culture after the Haitian Revolution.<\/p>\r\n

Professor Desormeaux\u2019s first book, La Figure du bibliomane: histoire du livre et strat\u00e9gie litt\u00e9raire au XIXe si\u00e8cle<\/em> (Nizet, 2001) dealt with the history of rare-book collection in the nineteenth century. Collecting was not only a legitimate intellectual occupation but also the front line of defense in the battle against the cultural amnesia provoked by the French Revolution of 1789. The book analyses the rise of bibliomania as a well-accepted tradition within cultural institutions from the early 19^{th<\/sup> century to the beginning of the twentieth. A second monograph, Alexandre Dumas, fabrique d\u2019immortalit\u00e9 <\/em>(Classiques Garnier 2014), examines the many ways Dumas both embraces and displaces the borders of archival discourse, the popular novel, collections, history, and memoirs. It explores the literary and artistic strategies that Dumas used in his infinite quest for eternal recognition and success as a writer.<\/p>\r\n}

Professor Desormeaux has played a key role in disseminating crucial historical and literary documents in Haitian thought and letters. His critical edition of the M\u00e9moires du g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Toussaint Louverture<\/em> (Classiques Garnier, 2011), should be understood as a secret bibliophilic effort to exhume long-lost documents from the colonial archives and to bring into view the global implications of 19th-century Haitian political thought and its contrasting legacies.<\/p>\r\n

More broadly, Daniel Desormeaux is interested in transatlantic history of ideas, comparative analysis of history and literature, the development of new Francophone cultural institutions in the 19th century, eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Revolution, slavery in Haiti, literature and spirituality (voodoo). Currently, he is completing a collection of essays on contemporary French Caribbean novelists, as well as a book-length essay on Haitian history.<\/strong><\/p>"],"ecpt_teaching":["