Dr. Riccardo Barontini

Riccardo Barontini is a postdoctoral fellow in French at Ghent University, in the project “Literature, Environment and Ecology”. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm, he holds an Agrégation in Italian and a Ph.D. in French Literature from Sorbonne University, and he has been a visiting researcher at Stanford University. His main research topics are French contemporary literature, theories of the imagination and ecopoetics. He recently edited, with Julien Lamy, the volume L’Histoire du concept d’imagination en France (de 1918 à nos jours). He’s in the redactional board of the international journal “Ermeneutica Letteraria”.  He is currently working on ecocritical and ecopoetical matters with a specific focus on the imagination and narrativization of natural scientific information in contemporary fiction. He is also the webmaster and coordinator of the site Literature.green.