Book History Specialist, Professor at the Collège de France
Roger Chartier
Roger Chartier, born in Lyon on December 9, 1945, is a French historian associated with the historiographical movement of the Annales School. He works on the history of books, publishing, and reading.A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure of Saint Cloud and the Sorbonne, he initially taught ...
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About Roger Chartier
Roger Chartier, born in Lyon on December 9, 1945, is a French historian associated with the historiographical movement of the Annales School. He works on the history of books, publishing, and reading.
A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure of Saint Cloud and the Sorbonne, he initially taught as an associate professor at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He later became a lecturer, then a director of studies at EHESS. Roger Chartier has been a visiting fellow at prestigious North American universities (Princeton, Yale, Berkeley, Cornell…). In 2006, he was appointed professor at the Collège de France, holding the chair “Writing and Cultures in Modern Europe.”
Roger Chartier served as Director of the Centre for Historical Research at EHESS (1982-1986), then as Director of the Alexandre Koyré Centre (1989-1998), and Director of the International Centre for Synthesis-Foundation for Science (1993-1997). He was also President of the Scientific Council of the Bibliothèque de France (1990-1994) and a member of the Scientific Council for university research under the Minister of Higher Education and Research (1990-1994).
He co-produces and hosts the program Les Lundis de l’Histoire on France Culture. He has contributed to the “Books” pages of Libération, and from 1988 to Le Monde des Livres.
Roger Chartier has notably received the Annual Award from the American Printing History Association (1990) for his work as a historian, and the Grand Prix d’Histoire (Prix Gobert) from the Académie Française (1992).
Among his publications: L’Éducation en France du xvie au xviiie siècle (Société d’édition d’enseignement supérieur, 1976), Histoire de l’édition française (edited with Henri-Jean Martin, 4 volumes, Fayard, 1983–1986), Les Origines culturelles de la Révolution française (Seuil, 1990), Le Livre en révolutions, interviews with Jean Lebrun (Textuel, 1997), Histoire de la lecture dans le monde occidental (edited with Guglielmo Cavallo, Seuil, 1997), Inscrire et effacer (Seuil, 2005), Au bord de la falaise. L’histoire entre certitudes et inquiétude (Albin Michel, 1998), Le sociologue et l’historien (with Pierre Bourdieu, Agone/Raisons d’agir, 2010), Ecouter les morts avec les yeux (Fayard, 2008), Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare (Gallimard, 2011).