Biography

Raphaël Baroni, born October 17, 1970, is a Swiss narratologist. He is Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne

University of Lausanne

The University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 12,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the university...

, Switzerland.

After graduating at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Baroni spent a year, in 1997/1998, lecturing at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 (Ann Arbor). Between 1998 and 2002, he collaborated with sociologist Prof. André Petitat at the University of Lausanne on a research financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation

Swiss National Science Foundation

The Swiss National Science Foundation is a science research support organization mandated by the Swiss Federal Government. The SNSF was established in 1952 as a foundation under private law. Its secretariat is based in Bern....

 (SNF) consisting in analyzing fairy tales in an interactionist perspective. Later, he received a fellowship from the SNF to finish writing his PhD in the field of narrative theory at the Research Center on Arts and Language (CRAL, EHESS-CNRS, Paris). His thesis, co-directed by Prof. André Petitat and Prof. Jean-Michel Adam, was successfully defended in June 2005 at the University of Lausanne, it received the Prize of the Faculty in 2006 and was later published, with a foreword of Jean-Marie Schaeffer, in the collection “Poétique” directed by Gérard Genette

Gérard Genette

Gérard Genette is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage.-Life:...

. The book is dealing with poetics of the plot, mainly focusing on its dynamic aspects: narrative tension, suspense, curiosity and surprise. His work is inspired by rhetorical and functionalist narratology of Meir Sternberg, but also by reception theory, cognitivism, interactionism, and peircean semiotics. Between 2005 and 2008, Baroni collaborated with Prof. Françoise Revaz (University of Fribourg

University of Fribourg

The University of Fribourg is a university in the city of Fribourg, Switzerland.The roots of the University can be traced back to 1582, when the notable Jesuit Peter Canisius founded the Collège Saint-Michel in the City of Fribourg. In 1763, an Academy of law was founded by the state of Frobourg...

) on a research dealing with newspaper serialized narrations. On July 2008, he was hired by the School of French as a Foreign Language (EFLE) at the University of Lausanne, where he teaches French and is co-leading, with Prof. Thérèse Jeanneret, the Research Group of Language Biography (GReBL). Baroni has been promoted to associate professor of didactic in August 2011.

His last book, published in 2009, deals with the complex bonds between time and narrative, renewing Ricoeur’s propositions and opening new fields of investigation for pragmatic, ethic and alethic analysis of both factual and fictional narratives.

Raphaël Baroni is member of the advisory board of Les Cahiers de Narratologie, and of Comicalites ,. He also collaborates with Vox Poetica and with the interdisciplinary journal A Contrario. that he has directed from 2009 to 2010. In 2010, he has founded, with Prof. Françoise Revaz, the Reseau Romand de Narratologie (Narratology Network of French-speaking Switzerland) .

Books

• Baroni, R. (2009) L’Œuvre du temps. Poétique de la discordance narrative, Paris, Seuil, coll. « Poétique ».
• Baroni, R. (2007) La Tension narrative. Suspense, curiosité, surprise, Paris, Seuil, coll. « Poétique ». Foreword by Jean-Marie Schaeffer.
• Baroni, R. & M. Macé (dir.) (2007) Le Savoir des genres, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, coll. « La Licorne ».
• Baroni, R., J. Meizoz & G. Merrone (dir.) (2006) Littérature et sciences sociales dans l’espace romand, Lausanne, Antipodes.

Article

Baroni, R. (2009) "Tellability" in Handbook of Narratology, J. Pier, W. Schmid, J. Schönert, P. Hühn (dir.), Berlin & New York, Walter de Gruyter.

External links

• Le Réseau Romand de Narratologie: http://www.narratologie.ch
• https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=890408&LanCode=37
• http://www.vox-poetica.org/revue.html
• http://www.vox-poetica.org/t/articles/baroni.html