Emmanuelle Loyer

An alumnus of Ecole Normale Supérieure and agrégée in history, Emmanuelle Loyer is professor of contemporary history at Sciences Po Paris.

A specialist of the cultural history of contemporary societies, her work has focused on artistic practices and policies, and more recently on exile and transnational intellectual phenomena. Her most recent interests include the relationship between literature and the social sciences. She published a biography of Claude Lévi-Strauss (Flammarion) in 2015.

At the Centre for History at Sciences Po, she has coordinated doctoral seminars on “Transnational Cultural Circulation: Institutions, Knowledge and Practices” with Laurent Martin and Marie Scot (2010-2013), and on “Literature and Social Science” with Ivan Jablonka (University of Paris 13) and Jeanne Lazarus (2014-2017). Today, Emmanuelle Loyer is co-directing with Emmanuel Bouju and Frédérique Leichter-Flack a new doctoral seminar "With two voices: Literature and Social Sciences"

As part of the Science Po undergraduate core curriculum, Emmanuelle Loyer teaches the required course in history for students majoring in Politics & Humanities on the Paris campus, entitled “Narratives, Representations, and Uses of the Past”.

Latest publications

• Lévi-Strauss, Monique and Emmanuelle Loyer. 2021. L' Abécédaire de Claude Lévi-Strauss. Abédédaires des Lumières. Paris: Les Editions de l'Observatoire.
• Loyer, Emmanuelle. 2019. "Discours de réception du prix de la biographie européenne 'Einhardt zu Seligenstadt', 16 mars 2019."
• Loyer, Emmanuelle. 2019. "Opening address for the Conference of European Historians of Brazil, Musée du Quai Branly, September 18, 2019."
• Loyer, Emmanuelle. 2019. "Claude Lévi-Strauss, Our Contemporary." Berose. http://www.berose.fr/article1747.html.
• Loyer, Emmanuelle. 2019. Lévi-Strauss: A Biography. Trans. by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff. Cambridge: Polity Press.
• 2019. “Discours de réception du prix de la biographie europénne ‘Einhard tzu Seligenstadt’”, March 19, 2019.
• 2019. “Opening Address for the Conference of European Historians of Brazil”, Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, September 18, 2019.
• 2019. “Claude Lévi-Strauss, Our Contemporary”, Berose, 2019.
• 2018. “L’âge de la voiture automobile a sonné”, Le Monde, December.
• 2018, “Faut-il créer des concours plus justes socialement ou se débarrasser du concours lui-même ?”, Le Monde, October.