Denis Saint-Amand

Denis Saint-Amand is a qualified researcher of the FNRS at UNamur. Contemporary French literature (19th-21st centuries) constitutes the main field of his research: he has devoted several works to the workings of literary life (sociabilities, rites and beliefs, mediations and supports) and to the analysis of modern texts (in particular the work of Arthur Rimbaud). Doctor of Languages ​​and Letters from ULiège (2011), he directed the collective volumes La Préface (with M.-P. Luneau, Classiques Garnier, 2016), La Dynamique des groupes littéraires (PULg, 2016), Poétique du Chat Noir (with C. Crépiat and J. Schuh, PU Nanterre, 2021), Railler aux éclats. The Satirical Vein of Contemporary French Literature (with D. Vrydaghs, PUR, 2021) and The Wild Writings of Protestation (Fabula, 2023). He is the author of La Littérature à l'ombre (Classiques Garnier, 2012), The Diverted Dictionary (PUR, 2013), The Potache Style (La Baconnière, 2019) and Fictions of the Literary World (PULg, 2024). With A. Glinoer, he coordinated The Socius Lexicon, available entirely online (2014-2016). Specializing in the approach to diversion, marginal works, collective productions and literary productions outside the book, he is currently looking at wild literature, to which an Observatory (OLSa) is dedicated at UNamur.