Jean-Pierre Devillers

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.