#  Sylvaine Guyot 

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (French)

 

 

 



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 **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).



 

 

 





 

 

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