Pascal Michelucci

Graduate appointment: Graduate French Program

Pascal Michelucci teaches modern and contemporary French literature in the Department of French at the University of Toronto and in Language Studies on the Mississauga campus (UTM). Pascal is co-founder and member of the Groupe de recherche et d’étude de la littérature française d’aujourd’hui (GRELFA). He has published a monograph on metaphor in the works of Paul Valéry and several journal articles, on Rimbaud, Valéry, Pieyre de Mandiargues, Duras, Ernaux, and Jauffret, among others.

Current Courses

Fall/Winter 2026–27:

• FRE363 (Love and Pain in French Literature)
• FRE364 (Society through the French Novel)
• FRE369 (The French Novel Today)

Education

• PhD, French Language and Literature, University of Toronto
• MA, French Language and Literature, University of Toronto
• BA, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis

Areas of Teaching and Research Interests

• Contemporary French literature
• 20th-century French literature

Selected Publications

Articles

• Michelucci, Pascal. "Le parti de l’expression : le roman maniériste d’Éric Laurrent." Narrations d'un nouveau siècle : romans et récits français (2001–2010), edited by Bruno Blanckeman and Barbara Havercroft, Paris, Presses Sorbonne nouvelle, 2012, pp. 265–276.
• Michelucci, Pascal. "La motivation des styles chez Marguerite Duras : cris et silence dans Moderato cantabile et La douleur." Études françaises, vol. 39, no. 2 (Zola, explorateur des marges), 2003, pp. 95–107.

Selected Grants, Fellowships and Awards

• SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator, 2021–2026, Politiques du genre et engagement dans la littérature française de l'extrême contemporain
• SSHRC Insight Grant, Co-investigator, 2017–2022, Dictionnaire de sémiotique bilingue en ligne, avec glossaire et cartes conceptuelles