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Danielle Chaperon is a Full Professor at the University of Lausanne, holding concurrent positions at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Literature, the Center for Historical Sciences of Culture, the French Section, and the Center for Theater Studies within the Faculty of Letters. Her academic profile reflects a deep commitment to interdisciplinary research spanning literature, theater, and cultural history.
Her research encompasses Dramaturgy, History of Theatre, Literary History (18th-20th centuries), Dramatic Literature, and critical intersections between Literature and the History of Art/Science. Specialized expertise includes 19th Century French Literature, Science Fiction, and Popular Science, demonstrating a rigorous methodology that bridges textual analysis with visual and scientific discourse.
Publications like "Lena’s Long Journey" (2022) and "Salvador Dali at the crossroads of knowledge" (2007) reveal consistent thematic focus on cross-disciplinary cultural artifacts, examining how literary forms engage with scientific concepts and visual media through historical frameworks.
She received the Banque Cantonale Vaudoise Prize in Human Sciences (1995) for her doctoral thesis on Camille Flammarion, lauded for scholarly rigor, literary excellence, and innovative conceptual framing of scientific popularization.
As an active collaborator across multiple research centers, Chaperon contributes to institutional projects exploring the historical dimensions of literature and theater, fostering methodological dialogue between humanities disciplines through collective scholarly initiatives.
