Professor Antoine Cazé was a student at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He graduated from the Sorbonne Nouvelle with a BA (1st class) and MA (1st class honors) in English, majoring in American Literature. He holds a postgraduate diploma from University Paris Diderot, where he also prepared his doctorate in American Literature.
Prof. Cazé started his academic career at the University of Orléans, where he developed an MA program in professional literary translation which he ran for 8 years, concurrently starting a career as a literary translator. He was awarded the Maurice-Edgar Coindreau Translation Prize for best translation into French of an American book (2005), and the Laure Bataillon Classique
Translation Prize of the Maison des Écrivains et des Traducteurs (2015).
Prof. Cazé was appointed at University Paris Diderot in 2008. He has since run the MA Program in Professional Literary Translation, and led the “Observatoire de la Littérature Américaine,” a research unit devoted to the study of cutting edge innovative American literature which, over the years, has collaborated with many leading contemporary U.S. writers.