Sylvaine Guyot

Academic Degrees: École normale supérieure (Paris); Licence, Classics, Paris Sorbonne; Agrégation in Classics; Maîtrise, D.E.A., French Literature, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle; Ph.D, French Literature and Performing Arts, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle.

Research Interests: 17th-Century French Literature; Theater and performance practices; Early modern visual culture; History of the body and emotions; Tragedy and the tragic; History/Theory of performing arts; Dramatic repertoire; Intersections between drama and painting.

Current projects: -- Book-length project on the éblouissement classique and early modern theatricality.  -

- A study of the Princess Palatine’s letters.

-- Comédie-Française Register Project (MIT, Paris Ouest Nanterre, Harvard, Sorbonne), dedicated to the digital capture, transcription and analysis of the handwritten registers of the Comédie-Française for the years 1680-1793.

Performing Arts: Co-Founder, Le Théâtre de l’Homme qui marche (France), La Troupe (Harvard).

Board Member, French Theatrical Foundation (Boston).

Co-Director, Racine’s Andromaque (Paris, 2006), Heiner Müller’s Hamlet-machine (Paris-Avignon, 2009-10).

Director, Ionesco’s Macbett (Cambridge-NYC, 2010), Corneille’s L’Illusion comique (Harvard, 2011), Camus’s Les Justes (Boston-Cornell, 2013), Wajdi Mouawad’s Incendies (Cambridge, 2014).