Author/Interviewer
Emeritus professor of American Literature and Film Studies.
Founder and former director of the Performing Arts Department (1996) and former director.
Founding member and president of SERCIA (Société d’études et de recherches sur le cinéma anglophone) from 2002 to 2008.
Former president of the Association des Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois, member of the Poitiers Film Festival selection committee until 2015.
Publications: over one hundred articles on fantastic literature, Anglo-Saxon science-fiction and Hollywood cinema.
Author of :
- Dracula, la Noirceur et la Grâce (with A-M Paquet-Deyris, 2006).
Publisher or co-editor of some thirty books including:
- HP Lovecraft, Mythes et Modernité (2002),
- R. L. Stevenson et A. Conan Doyle (2003, with JP Naugrette),
- Jacques Tourneur (2006),
- Film and History (2008),
- Manières de Noir (2010),
- Persistances Dothiques dans la Literature et les Arts de l’Image, (2012).
Latest publications:
- King Vidor, Odyssée des Inconnus (with J-M Lecomte, CinémAction, 2014),
- Le Western et les Mythes de l’Ouest (with L.Guillaud, PU Rennes, 2015),
- Sherlock Holmes, un Limier pour le XXIème Siècle (with H. Machinal and J-P Naugrette, PU Rennes, 2016),
- Lovecraft au Prisme de l’Image (with C. Gelly, le Visage vert, 2017),
- Tim Burton, A Cinema of Transformations (PULM, 2018).
To be published in early 2020:
- Spectres de Poe, Le Visage vert.