Background
Baroni, Raphaël was born on October 17, 1970 in Switzerland. Son of Christophe Baroni and Christiane Blanc.
sociologist Associate Professor
Baroni, Raphaël was born on October 17, 1970 in Switzerland. Son of Christophe Baroni and Christiane Blanc.
Later, he received a fellowship from the National Science Foundation to finish writing his Doctor of Philosophy in the field of narrative theory at the Research Center on Arts and Language (CRAL, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales -National Center for Scientific Research, Paris).
He is Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. After graduating at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Baroni spent a year, in 1996/1997, lecturing at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). Between 1998 and 2002, he collaborated with sociologist Professor
André Petitat at the University of Lausanne on a research financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (National Science Foundation) consisting in analyzing fairy tales in an interactionist perspective.
The book is dealing with poetics of the plot, mainly focusing on its dynamic aspects: narrative tension, suspense, curiosity and surprise. His work is inspired by rhetorical and functionalist narratology of Meir Sternberg, but also by reception theory, cognitivism, interactionism, and peircean semiotics.
Between 2005 and 2008, Baroni collaborated with Professor Françoise Revaz (University of Fribourg) on a research dealing with newspaper serialized narrations.
On July 2008, he was hired by the School of French as a Foreign Language (EFLE) at the University of Lausanne, where he teaches French and is co-leading, with Professor
Thérèse Jeanneret, the Research Group of Language Biography (GReBL). Baroni has been promoted to associate professor of didactic in August 2011. His last book, published in 2009, deals with the complex bonds between time and narrative, renewing Ricoeur’s propositions and opening new fields of investigation for pragmatic, ethic and alethic analysis of both factual and fictional narratives.
He also collaborates with Vox Poetica and with the interdisciplinary journal A Contrario. that he has directed from 2009 to 2010.
In 2010, he has founded, with Professor Françoise Revaz, the Reseau Romand de Narratologie (Narratology Network of French-speaking Switzerland).
Raphaël Baroni is member of the advisory board of Les Cahiers de Narratologie, and of Comicalites.