Lionel Ruffel (born 1985) is a literary scholar, publisher, and author. Chair and Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Paris 8, he is the founding director of the creative writing program there. His projects include organizing (together with artist
Kader Attia) "Theory Now" at La Colonie (Paris), "The Publishing Sphere" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and "Radio Brouhaha" at Centre Pompidou (Paris). He is the author of the monographs
Le Dénouement,
Volodine post-exotique,
Brouhaha: Worlds of the Contemporary, and
Trompe-la-mort.
