Michel Braud is a professor at the University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour. His research focuses on autobiography, the diary, and literary genres of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published La Forme des jours (Paris, 2006) and edited the volumes Poetiques de la duree in no. 30 of Modernites (Bordeaux, 2010) and L'Art de l'ordinaire in no. 21 of the journal Methode! (Vallongues, 2012).