Jean-François Laplénie is a senior lecturer of German at Sorbonne Université’s Department of German and Scandinavian, a member of research team REIGENN (U.R. 3556), and co-chair of gender studies research group Philomel. His research has focused on relationships between literature and neighbouring fields (especially sciences) from a sociological and historical perspective. His doctoral dissertation (“Neighbour Powers”: Studies for a Reception History of Psychoanalysis in German-speaking Literary Circles (1900-1930), supervisor Pr. Gerald Stieg, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, 2004) and ulterior papers have focused on the uses of psychological and psychoanalytical knowledge in modernist literature of the first third of the 20th century. He subsequently extended his field of study to literature after 1945, and to the relationship between literature and politics (see “Revolution in the Subjective Mode: Egodocuments,  Erased Traces and Fragmented Perspectives on the German Revolution of 1918-1919”, special issue of Revue d’Allemagne et des pays de langue allemande 54.1 (2022)) as well as to minority voices. Since 2022 he has co-organised a seminar entitled “Missing archives? Archives and the Construction of Literary and Cultural History in the German-speaking World since 1945”, which tackles the archives of minority groups and canon-related questions. His current research project is devoted to German-language literature written during the HIV/AIDS crisis (1985-2000).