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Sylvain Ledda
File:SylvainLedda.jpg
Born	1971
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Scholar, writer, theater director
Employer	University of Rouen Normandy

Sylvain Ledda (born 1971) is a French literary scholar, writer, and theater director. He specializes in 19th-century French literature, particularly Romanticism, and is a professor at the University of Rouen Normandy. His academic work focuses on authors such as Alfred de Musset, Gérard de Nerval, and Alfred de Vigny.

Early life and education

Ledda earned the French agrégation in modern literature in 1996. He defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Nantes in 2006, titled La Représentation de la mort sur la scène romantique (1827–1835). In 2010, he obtained his habilitation (HDR) at Paris-Sorbonne University with a study focused on themes of death and fantasy in the works of Alfred de Musset.

Academic career

From 2007 to 2011, Ledda was a lecturer at the University of Rouen. He served as a professor at the University of Nantes from 2011 to 2013, before returning to Rouen. Since 2013, he has held a full professorship in 19th-century French literature at the University of Rouen Normandy. Between 2017 and 2019, he headed the Department of Modern Literature and coordinated the research group “Stage and Screen Arts” within the CÉRÉdI research center.

Theater direction

Ledda has directed numerous stage productions from the classical and Romantic repertoire, including:

• L’Intruse by Maurice Maeterlinck – Théâtre du Nord-Ouest (2001)
• Œdipe by Pierre Corneille – Théâtre du Nord-Ouest (2001)
• Les Acteurs de bonne foi by Marivaux – Théâtre du Nord-Ouest (2005)
• Les Précieuses ridicules by Molière – Théâtre Essaïon (2005)
• Un caprice by Alfred de Musset – Théâtre du Nord-Ouest (2010)

Awards

• 2009: Received the Prix Alfred de Vigny for his book Des feux dans l’ombre.

Research

Ledda’s research explores the interconnection between literature, theater, and cultural history in 19th-century France. He has written extensively on Alfred de Musset, including studies of melancholy, death, fantasy, and poetic aesthetics. His work has been cited in academic journals such as Romantisme.

He has also contributed to studies on Franco-Italian cultural exchange, sociocriticism, and interdisciplinary analysis between literature, music, and visual arts.

Selected works

Books

• ^ Ledda, Sylvain (2009). Des feux dans l’ombre: La Représentation de la mort sur la scène romantique. Paris: Honoré Champion. ISBN 9782745318254.
• ^ Ledda, Sylvain (2010). Alfred de Musset: Les fantaisies d’un enfant du siècle. Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 9782070435631.
• ^ Ledda, Sylvain (2012). L'Éventail et le dandy: Essai sur Musset et la fantaisie. Geneva: Librairie Droz. ISBN 9782600015539.
• ^ Ledda, Sylvain (2012). Musset, ou le Ravissement du proverbe. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. ISBN 9782130594349.
• ^ Ledda, Sylvain (2014). Alexandre Dumas. Folio biographies. Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 9782070459798.
• ^ Ledda, Sylvain (2016). Ravel. Folio biographies. Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 9782070461593.
• On ne badine pas avec l’amour d’Alfred de Musset: ou les cœurs égarés (Champion, 2024)

Edited volumes

• Musset, un romantique né classique (with Frank Lestringant), Presses universitaires du Mirail (2009)
• Territoires de Musset (with Frank Lestringant and Patrick Berthier), Presses universitaires de Rennes (2010)
• Lectures de Musset, Presses universitaires de Rennes (2012)
• Poétique de Musset (with Frank Lestringant and Gisèle Séginger), Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre (2013)

Selected articles

• 2004: “Gautier, Judge of Musset’s Theatre”, Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier, no. 26.
• 2005: “For Him, Women Were Only a Model…”, Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier, no. 27.
• 2009: “The Fallen Poet”, in Musset, un romantique né classique.
• 2012: “Editing Musset’s Theatre. Interview with Frank Lestringant”, in Lectures de Musset.
• 2022: “What Sociocriticism Does to the Theater” (with Esther Pinon), Études françaises, vol. 58, no. 3.
• 2024: “Do We Not Live from the Dead?”, L’Année balzacienne, no. 25.

Recent critical activity

• 2024: Published a scholarly review of the book Impressionism – From Photography to Painting by the photographer Réhahn in the journal Fabula.

External links

• French Wikipedia page
• CERÉdI – Center for Studies and Research “Edit / Interpret”
• Personal page on Academia.edu
• Profile at Centre Gustave Flaubert
• Faculty page at University of Rouen

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