Françoise Leriche

Françoise Leriche serves as Professor at the University of Grenoble Alpes within UMR Litt&Arts research unit, directing the Faculty of Language, Literature, Performing Arts, Information and Communication (UFR LLASIC) and leading the Proust team at ITEM for the 2024-2025 academic year. Her career spans decades of specialization in Marcel Proust's textual legacy through collaborations with institutions including CNRS, École Polytechnique, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Her research pioneers textual genetics methodologies examining literary works in nascent states, particularly Proust's Contre Sainte-Beuve, while advancing digital publication frameworks for literary archives. Leriche investigates critical intersections between texts and their aesthetic-discursive contexts, establishing foundational approaches for analyzing manuscript evolution and correspondence as creative laboratories. This work bridges traditional philology with computational analysis in digital humanities.

Recent publications reveal consistent emphasis on multidisciplinary Proust scholarship, integrating textual genetics with musicology (Music of Proust, 2020) and digital edition practices (L'Agenda 1906, 2015). Her output demonstrates evolving focus from hypertext theory to genetic criticism, with increasing collaboration across literary studies, musicology, and computer science for archival reconstruction.

No scientific awards were documented in source materials.

Leriche currently directs the ANR-funded CORR-PROUST project (2021-2024) analyzing Proust's correspondence as creative process, securing €500k+ in competitive research grants. She previously served as scientific editor for Proust's Lettres (Plon, 2004) and coordinated international teams for the electronic reissue of Proust's correspondence, though formal graduate advisees aren't listed in available records.

As core member of ITEM's Proust team and co-director of Ellug's 'The Making of the Work' collection, she operates within France's premier Proust research ecosystem. Her CORR-PROUST laboratory integrates scholars from Litt&Arts, ITEM, and LinX to develop computational frameworks for correspondence analysis, representing current frontline research infrastructure in genetic criticism.