Fabienne Bercegol

Fabienne Bercegol is a Professor of 19th Century French Literature at the University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, where she directs the Patrimoine, Littérature, Histoire (PLH) research unit. She holds leadership roles in the H-SHS Research Center and serves on multiple academic bodies including the Conseil Universitaire National (CNU) and Hcéres. Her work bridges literary analysis with historical and religious studies, focusing on Romanticism and its intersections with music, art, and cultural memory.

• Educated at École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris, Agrégée in Modern Literature.
• Former MCF at Paris IV-Sorbonne (1996-1999) and Bordeaux III (1999-2008).

Her research explores poetics of genres, particularly ego writings, novels, and their intersections with history, religion, and art. She specializes in major authors like Chateaubriand, Stendhal, and overlooked figures such as Sophie Cottin and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.

Recent publications analyze vegetal symbolism (2024), literary portraiture (2023), and passion dynamics in Fromentin and Flaubert (2025). She co-edits the Chateaubriand Series at Lettres Modernes Minard and the Complete Works of Senancour at Classiques Garnier.

She organizes international conferences on themes like musical landscapes, revolutionary figures, and memory in portraiture, collaborating with institutions in France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. Her work emphasizes interdisciplinary methodologies, connecting literature with visual arts and historical discourse.