A ULg Doctor in philosophy and the arts (1961) and today Professor Emeritus, Jacques Dubois taught nineteenth and twentieth century French literature as well as the sociology of cultural institutions from 1978 to 1998. His university pathway at Liège, original in the convergence he managed to establish between the disciplines of literature and sociology, naturally crossed the path of Simenon’s works: he ranked this writer from the ‘Fervent City’ amongst the ‘novelists of the real’ and he has incontestably become the world’s specialist on him. He has also invested in journalism, essentially from 1990 to 1993, as director of the Liège daily, La Wallonie, which has today disappeared. He was also one of the founders – and remained for several years its president – of the present department of communication arts and sciences at the ULg. Finally, he has on numerous occasions been a guest professor at several universities in Quebec, where he has trained a large number of researchers. It is an understatement to say that he has left his mark on the field of contemporary literature, particularly by the innovative approaches he has stamped on it: rhetoric, of course, with Groupe µ, but also and above all para or marginal literatures and the ideological and institutional analysis of writing.

Publications

DUBOIS J., Stendhal, une sociologie romanesque, La Découverte, 2007.

DUBOIS J., Les Romanciers du Réel, Seuil 2000.

DUBOIS J., Pour Albertine. Proust et le sens du social, Seuil, 1997.

DUBOIS J., Le Roman policier ou la modernité, Nathan, 1996.