Name
ZERNIK, Clelia
Position and Affiliated Institution
Full professor in contemporary philosophy and philosophy of art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris / President of the Research Chair on Beauty Studies at PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres University); President of the Steering Committee
Degree
Ph.D.
Education and Academic Employment
| Education | |
| 2000 | Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (competitive exam) |
| 2002 | Agregation in Philosophy (competitive exam) |
| 2004 | Ecole Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm, Paris, Master of Philosophy |
| 2004 | Paris I Sorbonne University, Master 2 |
| 2004 | Sciences Po, Paris, Master 2 |
| 2009 | Paris IV Sorbonne University, Paris, PhD |
| 2009-2010 | Waseda University, Tokyo, Post-Doctorate |
| 2025 | Defense of habilitation to supervise research (HDR) |
| Academic Employment | |
| 2011-present | Tenured Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris |
| 2015-2016 | Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 2017-2017 | Visiting Professor, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland |
| 2019-present | President, Research Chair on Beauty studies, Chaire Beauté.s, Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL university) |
| 2021-2021 | Visiting Professor, University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland |
| 2023-2024 | International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto |
Research Topic
Contemporary Japanese Art and Cinema/ Aesthetics/ Contemporary Philosophy/ Comparative Culture studies between France and Japan/ Art Critic
Fields of Research Interest
Ritual in Contemporary Japanese Art and Post-Fukushima Art
Academic Publications
- Zernik, Clélia, Perception-cinéma: les enjeux stylistiques d’un dispositif, Vrin, September 2010, [English : Perception-Cinema : The Stylistic Issues of a Device], 113 pages.
- Zernik, Clélia, L’œil et l’objectif, La psychologie de la perception à l’épreuve du style cinématographique, Vrin, June 2012, [English : The Eye and the Objective. The Psychology of Perception Tested by Filmmaking Style], 344 pages.
- Zernik, Clélia. Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai. Published by: Yellow Now, April 2013, 128 pages.
- Ferrier, Michaël, Clélia Zernik, Dans l’œil du désastre. Créer avec Fukushima. [English : In the Eye of Disaster/ To Create with Fukushima], Interviews with Chim Pom, Aida Makoto, Ohmaki Shinji, Nawa Kôhei, Sawaragi Noi, Fujii Hikaru, Kota Takeuchi, Yanagi Yukinori, Editions Thierry Marchaisse, January 2021, pp 16-70; pp. 104-138.
- Zernik, Clélia, Ozu and his Double, De l’Incidence Edition,Paris, 2026.
Affiliated Academic Organizations
Affiliated with the SACRe laboratory, ENS
Awards
- Concours général (competitive exam); rank : 3 ; Latin, 1996.
- Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d’Ulm (competitive exam); rank : 29 ; 2000. Agregation in Philosophy (competitive exam); rank :16 ; 2002. 2009-2010:
- Price from the Chancellerie des universités – Rectorat de Paris, post-doctorate, Waseda
- University. August 2017: Price from Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art for writing an essay on Japanese art festival.
Other Interests
Japanese as foreign language
