Gérald PELOUX’s Profile

Born in 1973
1998: Agrégé for Japanese language and Japanese culture
1998: Japanese teacher for Collège-Lycée Jean de La Fontaine at Paris
2012: Received doctorate degree (Université Paris Diderot)
2015: Lecturer in Japanese studies (University of Cergy-Pontoise, now Cergy Paris University)
Currently a lecturer at Cergy Paris University (main subject: Modern Japanese Popular Culture)

Main Accomplishments

• Supervised by Sakai Cécile and Peloux Gérald, Edogawa Ranpo: The Maze of the Japanese Detective Novel, 2018
• Writing for the Future: Edogawa Ranpo’s Autobiographical Drive
• Edogawa Ranpo, On the Diversity of Japanese Detective Novels, French Translation
• Edogawa Ranpo, The Boundaries and Categories of Detective Novels, French Translation
• Travel Writing in a Global Age: The Travel Writings of Haruki Murakami, Supervised by Ishida Hitoshi and Antonin Bechler, Haruki Murakami as a Culture Symbol, 2020
• The Change from Moving to Traveling as Seen from Bungei Shuto After the War, Supervised by Odaira Maiko, Bungei Shuto: Doujinshi as a Public Tool, 2020
• The Resilient Work of a Poet, Preface of Hokuto’s Notebooks by Hokuto Iboshi (translated from Japanese by Patrick Blanche and Tsukahara Fumi), 2018
• Living Corpses and Destroyed Puppets: The Pain and Reconstruction of the Body in Edogawa Ranpo’s Works, 39th Issue of Extrême-Orient Extrême-Orient: Suffering Bodies in Chinese and Japanese Literature of the 20th Century Special Issue, 2015, French, French notations