Born
of French and Swiss parents, Jean-Pierre de Villers was raised and
educated in France and Switzerland (Saint-Paul de Vence – Nice,
University of Paris. University of Aix-en-Provence) and the United
States where he was a Fulbright Scholar at Wesleyan University,
Middletown, Connecticut and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He
holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has taught at the
University of Colorado, the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, the U.S.
Air Force Language School at Sacramento, and the University of
California. He is presently Professor of Modern French Literature at the
University of Windsor, Windsor Ontario, Canada. His publications
include: Roger Vitrac et le théâtre d’avant-garde (University of
Michigan Microfilms), Futurism and the Arts (University of Toronto
Press), Le Premier Manifeste du Futurisme de F.T. Marinetti (University
of Ottawa Press), Standing on Top of the World /Debout sur la cime du
monde/Futurist Manifestoes – Manifestes futuristes 1909-1927 (Paris
Editions Dilecta, 2008), Futurist Manifestoes 1909-1944 ( N.Y. Mellen,
2012). He has also published two Traités de Phonétique générale et
corrective. He is the founder and editor of Studies on Futurism and the
Avant-Garde, a scholarly journal devoted to the study of international
avant-garde. His first novel, Guns of Babylon was published in Toronto.
The Last Flight of the Little Prince, the story of his encounter in New
York with the German pilot Wilhelm von Stadde has been translated into
nine languages. Jean-Pierre de Villers is married to French fashion
designer, Anne de Villers. They live in Windsor, Ontario, and in
Birmingham, Michigan.
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