Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn

Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn

Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn

is a tenured Researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris, in the research unit « Pays germaniques : transferts culturels ». After she graduated in German studies (Sorbonne and Ecole normale supérieure) and Modern Indology (Ecole des langues orientales) she completed her PhD on the history of Indology and comparative linguistics in Germany (Université Aix-Marseille I, 2005).

Her areas of specialization include the history of the human sciences, especially the history of Oriental philology. The ethnographical and anthropological aspect inherent to the philological work is a major focus of her research. She currently works on the history of the comparative method in the human sciences, connected with the development of Oriental studies. In a more contemporary perspective, she also analyses the reconfiguration of the comparative paradigm in the context of postcolonial studies.

Her publications include L’archive des origines. Sanskrit, philologie, anthropologie dans l’Allemagne du XIXe siècle (Paris, Cerf 2008) and Itinéraires orientalistes entre France et Allemagne (Revue germanique internationale 6/2008).