Professeur de littérature française à l’université de Toronto, Roland Le Huenen a consacré de nombreux travaux à l’œuvre de Balzac et à la littérature de voyage du XIXe siècle. Il a notamment publié une édition critique du Voyage à Terre‐Neuve d’Arthur de Gobineau et un ouvrage cosigné avec Alain Guyot, L’ « Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem » de Chateaubriand. L’invention du Voyage romantique.
Roland J. Le Huenen was educated at the universities of Caen and Strasbourg. Since 1968, he has been on the faculty of the University of Toronto, where he is now Professor of French and Comparative Literature. He took office as Director of the Centre for Comparative Literature in 1998. He has lectured extensively throughout North America and Europe, has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Tel Aviv, Montreal, Paris 7 and Paris 4-Sorbonne, and has held the Distinguished Melodia Jones Professorship in French Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1986 to 1994. He is one of the founding members of the Groupe international de recherches balzaciennes (GIRB) and of the Groupe international de recherches sandiennes (GIRS) as well as the author of numerous articles and books, focusing especially on the French novelist Honoré de Balzac, the 19th Century French novel and travel literature. His books include : Balzac, sémiotique du personnage romanesque (co-author,1980), Récits, contes et légendes de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon (Prix France-Acadie 1986), a critical edition of Gobineau’s Voyage à Terre-Neuve (1989), Discourse on Voyages to the New World (ed. 1990), Le narratif hors de soi (ed. 1997), Itinéraires du XIXème siècle (co-ed.), vol. 1 and 2 (1996 and 2001). His most recent book Chateaubriand: Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem, l’invention du voyage romantique is forthcoming in October 2006. Roland J. Le Huenen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the recipient of a D.Litt (hon).
