Ecole Normale Supérieure of Fontenay Saint-Cloud alumn and Associate Professor of Economics and Social Sciences, and habilitated to direct research at Paris 10 University, Martial Poirson is professor of cultural history, literature and theatrical studies at Paris 8 University, where he directs the team "History, politics and socio-economics of arts, culture and creation." He is also a lecturer at New York University Paris and works in several grandes écoles (Sciences Po, ESSEC, Audencia). He was in charge of mission at the National Library of France, the Comédie-Française and the French National Agency for Research.
He has published several books, including Spectacle et économie à l’âge classique (Classiques Garnier, 2011), Les Audiences de Thalie (Classics Garnier, 2013), Économie du spectacle (Puf, "Que-sais-je?", 2013 with I. Barbéris), Politique de la représentation (Champion, 2014), Comédie-Française : une histoire du théâtre (Seuil, "Fine Books", 2018, with Agathe Sanjuan) and Manuel des Etudes Theatrales (Armand Colin, 2019). He has coordinated more than thirty books on theater, literature, cinema, museums, political economy or popular culture. He is also curator of exhibitions in France (Museum of the French Revolution, Versailles Museum, Conciergerie) and abroad (Switzerland, Canada), playwright, artistic consultant and consultant in the management of culture and arts. He has been teaching in the undergraduate and graduate programs of NYU since 2002, where he currently teaches the course on contemporary France (generation, class, gender, race) and the history of Versailles.