Patrice Lajoye
Patrice Lajoye | |
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Born | 26 July 1974 Lisieux, Normandie |
Nationality | French |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Faculté ouverte des Religions et Humanismes Laïques (Charleroi) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Religious studies, Literary studies |
Sub-discipline | Comparative mythology, Celtic and Slavic paganism, Russian fantasy and science-fiction literature |
Institutions | University of Caen CNRS |
Patrice Lajoye (born 26 July 1974) is a French religious studies scholar and comparative mythologist who specializes on the study of Celtic and Slavic paganism. The co-founder of the journal Nouvelle Mythologie compar��e, he currently works for the CNRS at the Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines of the University of Caen, and serves as the sub-editor of Histoire et Sociétés Rurales. Lajoye has also written studies on Russian fantasy and science-fiction literature, as well as translations, anthologies, and novels.[1][2]
Career[]
Born on 26 July 1974 in Lisieux, Normandie, Patrice Lajoye first worked as a volunteer on archaeological sites in northwestern France in the 1990s. He earned a Master in geography from the University of Caen in 1998, then a PhD in comparative mythology summa cum laude from the Faculté ouverte des Religions et Humanismes laïques de Charleroi (Belgium) in 2008, under the direction of Celtic scholar . He was the director of the journal Mythologie Française from 2003 to 2007. Between 2008 and 2010, he worked as an Associate Researcher at , studying the funerary rites of the Gallo-Roman Évreux necropolis.[3][4] He also served as the sub-editor of the journal .[1] Lajoye is a member of the Société historique de Lisieux.[5]
His 2017 work Étoiles rouges: la littérature de science-fiction soviétique, co-written with his wife Viktoriya Lajoye, was awarded the Grand prix de l'Imaginaire for the best essay in 2018.[6]
Works[]
- Des dieux gaulois: petits essais de mythologie. Archaeolingua. 2008. ISBN 978-963-8046-92-5.
- Perun, dieu slave de l'orage: Archéologie, histoire, folklore. Lingva. 2015. ISBN 979-1094441251.
- L'arbre du monde : la cosmologie celte. CNRS Éditions. 2016. ISBN 978-2-271-08904-5.
- Étoiles rouges : la littérature de science-fiction soviétique. Piranha. 2017. ISBN 978-2-37119-074-0.
- New Researches on the Religion and Mythology of the Pagan Slavs. Lingva. 2019. ISBN 979-10-94441-46-6. (with Jirí Dynda and Alexander Ivanenko)
- La Grande anthologie du fantastique russe et ukrainien. Lingva. 2020. ISBN 979-10-94441-48-0.
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Patrice Lajoye : biographie, actualités et émissions France Culture". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2021-05-02.
- ^ "Patrice Lajoye". BNF.
- ^ Boiron, Zoé (2 February 2021). "Lisieux. Patrice Lajoye, un historien à la frontière du réel". Ouest-France.
- ^ "Patrice Lajoye | CV". unicaen.academia.edu.
- ^ Enée, Virginie (1 August 2018). "Port, rues, théâtre... Découvrez Lisieux à l'ère gallo-romaine". Ouest-France.
- ^ "Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire : Toxoplasma de Calvo consacré". ActuaLitté.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-05-02.
- 1974 births
- Comparative mythologists
- Celtic studies scholars
- Slavists
- Université catholique de Louvain alumni
- Living people