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Marc Fumaroli
A member of the Académie française, Marc Fumaroli is professor emeritus at the Collège de France and professor emeritus at the Sorbonne. A major historian of early modern  European literature and culture, he is the author of L'Âge de l'éloquence (1980/1994), Héros et orateurs (1990), L'École du silence (1994), and Trois institutions littéraires (1995). The leading authority on seventeenth-century rhetoric, Fumaroli is responsible for the position this discipline currently enjoys in contemporary thought and practice, and was general editor of the recent, monumental Histoire de la rhétorique dans l'Europe moderne, 1450-1950, (2000). Fumaroli is also a lively and provocative polemicist, in such works as L'État culturel : une religion moderne (1991). His most recent title is Le Sablier renversé. Des Modernes aux Anciens (2013).

Among his many academic affiliations, Fumaroli is president of the Société d’histoire littéraire de la France; a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and a foreign member of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

Fumaroli’s numerous awards include the Prix Monseigneur Marcel (1982) and the Prix de la Critique (1992), both awarded by the Académie française prior to his elected membership in 1995, and the prestigious International Balzan Prize (2001).