Françoise Lavocat, professeur de littérature comparée au Département : Littérature Générale et Comparée (LGC) et membre du CERC - Centre d'Études et de Recherches Comparatistes - EA 172, recevra, le 9 juin 2021, le titre de Docteur Honoris Causa de l'Université de Chicago.

Françoise Lavocat, is a renowned voice in comparative literature and fiction with a focus on fictionality, population of characters and the memory of catastrophes. She will receive the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

Françoise Lavocat’s publications include Fait et fiction: pour une frontière (Fact and Fiction: In Defense of a Border) and Sciences cognitives et interprétation littéraire (Cognitive Sciences and Literary Interpretation).

Françoise Lavocat is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, a member of the European Academy, and the founder and president of the International Society for Research in Fiction and Fictionality. She is an honorary president of the French Society of General and Comparative Literature, and has received the Adrien Duvant Prize from the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques for her work Arcadies malheureuses, aux origines du roman moderne (Unhappy Arcadias: At the Origin of the Novel).
 

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