Frederic Monneyron

Frederic Monneyron is a French writer and academic.

Life Born on March 25th, 1954 in Paris to Swiss descent, Monneyron spent his youth in the United Kingdom and Sweden, later living in Africa, Morocco and the United States. Monneyron currently lives in Montpellier, France.

Monneyron received his Doctorat d'Etat en science politique from the University of Montpellier I in 1984 and his Doctorat d'Etat ès lettres et sciences humaines from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1986. He taught at the University of California, the University of Abidjan, and the Cadi Ayyad University between 1980 and 1988. Monneyron taught at the University of Burgundy, the University of South Florida and Stendhal University between 1988 and 1998.

Monneyron is a full Professor in comparative and general literature at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia and is the head of the MBA "Fashion industries and luxury goods" at Mod'Art International, Paris, coming to teach sociology of fashion in the English-taught programme. He also teaches sociology, political science and aesthetics at the University Paul Valéry-Montpellier and sociology of fashion at the University of Geneva and at the University of Barcelona and is a Distinguished visiting professor at the University of South Florida, the University of Milan and the University of Bologna. Besides, he is an expert to the European Commission in Brussels (research directorate).

His works focused on sexuality, gender relations (Thèse d'Etat es lettres et sciences humaines : L'Imaginaire androgyne; L'Ecriture de la jalousie; Séduire), clothes, fashion and luxury (La Frivolité essentielle; La Mode et ses enjeux, La Sociologie de la mode, La Photographie de mode, Le Luxe, L'Imaginaire du luxe, Fashion. a Theory) on the one hand; on the ideas of nation and race (La Nation aujourd'hui, L'Imaginaire racial, L'Idée de race), on Europe (Thèse d'Etat de science politique: Les Neutres et l'intégration européenne) and the USA (Au Cœur des Etats-Unis) on the other hand.

He is the author of more than thirty books translated in major languages and is the editor of around fifteen collective works among which five conferences he organized at the Cerisy International Center (L'Androgyne, La Jalousie, La Misogynie, Le Masculin, Le Vêtement) .

He is also a novelist (Dossier diplomatique, Le Voyage d'un séducteur, Le Nihiliste, Après le désir, Une vie de piscines, Helter Skelter...), a short stories writer (Sans Nom et autres nouvelles), and a translator from English into French (A. K. Coomaraswamy, E. Wharton, P. G. Wodehouse, T.D. Allman)

On topics such as fashion, luxury, sexuality and seduction, he granted numerous interviews to the magazines and the radio and appeared on television programmes.