Roger Chartier
Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and visiting professor at the Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania.
He has given courses, seminars and conferences at numerous United States, Latin American and European universities. He has published over twenty essays on books and reading: The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France (1987); Cultural History. Between Practices and Representations (1988); The Order of Books: Readers, Authors and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1992); A History of Reading in the West (1997) and Les métamorphoses du livre (2001). His most recent book is Inscrire et effacer. Culture écrite et littérature XIe-XVIIIe siècle (2003).
He is a contributor for Le Monde and co-producer of the radio programme Les lundis de l'histoire on France Culture.