Tiphaine Samoyault

Tiphaine Samoyault (June 1968, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French university lecturer, literary critic, and novelist, specializing in the work of Roland Barthes.

Her childhood was immersed in music, notably at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, directed at the time by Nadia Boulanger, and located near her parents' apartments in the château.

[1] A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Samoyault wrote her doctoral thesis on Romans-Mondes, les formes de la totalisation romanesque au vingtième siècle (1996) and her habilitation thesis on l'Actualité de la fiction : théorie, comparaison, traduction (2003).

A former resident of the Villa Médicis (2000–2001),[4] Samoyault is also a novelist and translator of, among other works, portions of the new edition of James Joyce's Ulysses, and of David Shulman and Charles Malamoud's essay Ta'ayushn : journal d'un combat pour la paix : Israël Palestine, 2002-2005 (Le Seuil, 2006).

A member of the reading committee at Editions du Seuil, she also contributes to France Culture and was a contributor to La Quinzaine littéraire until September 2015.