Frederic Monneyron

Frederic Monneyron is a French writer and academic. Born 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) 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.