Julien ZANETTA

Position
Associate Professor
E-mail
julien.zanetta@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Letteratura francese [FRAN-01/A]
Website
www.unive.it/people/julien.zanetta (personal record)
Office
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc
Where: Palazzo Cosulich

Julien Zanetta (Geneva, 1984) holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Geneva (2014). From 2015 to 2017 he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship to carry out his research in the United States (University of Michigan / NYU) and from 2017 to 2019 he contributed to the curation of the correspondence between Odilon Redon and Andries Bonger. His work focuses mainly on Charles Baudelaire - to whom he dedicated his doctorate and was involved in the curatorship of his Œuvres complètes for the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade -, art criticism and aesthetics in the 19th century, the relationship between literature and painting, and the work of Jean Starobinski. He taught history of French literature at the Université Saint-Louis - Brussels and at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) from 2019 to 2023.

He is the author of five monographs - Baudelaire, la mémoire et les arts (Classiques Garnier, 2019) ; D'après nature. Biographies d'artistes au XIXe siècle (Hermann, 2019) ; Niveurmôrre. Versions françaises du Corbeau au XIXe siècle (Droz, 2020) ; L'Hôpital de la peinture (Rue d'Ulm, 2022) ; À proportion. Eugène Delacroix et la mesure de l'homme (Bord de l'eau, 2023) -, a translation of essays on aesthetics and literature by William Hazlitt (Sentiment et raison, Sorbonne Université Presses, 2019), and has edited several volumes on litterature and aesthetics (Exploring Text and Emotions, 2014; Haute fidélité: Jean Starobinski, 2018; Lire les Salons de Baudelaire, 2023)

He holds the National Scientific Qualification as a first level professor 10/H1 (French language, literature and culture, 2025).