The co-founder of the journal Nouvelle Mythologie comparée, 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] 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 Claude Sterckx [fr].
Between 2008 and 2010, he worked as an Associate Researcher at INRAP [fr], studying the funerary rites of the Gallo-Roman Évreux necropolis.