Antimodernes antoine compagnon biography

French literary critic, teacher, writer and professor

Antoine Compagnon (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃twankɔ̃paɲɔ̃]; born 20 July 1950 in Brussels, Belgium) is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris (2006–), and the Blanche W.

Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York City (1985–).

Education

Compagnon studied at École Polytechnique (1970) and École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1975), and holds a Doctorate of Paris Diderot University (1985).

Career

Compagnon was a Fellow of the Fondation Thiers (1975-1978), taught at École Polytechnique (1978-1985), Institut français du Royaume-Uni, London (1980-1981), University of Rouen (1981-1985), was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1986, 1990), Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1988),^[1] Professor at University of Maine (France), Le Mans (1989-1990), visiting fellow at