Michel Lantelme is a Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics. He served as French section Coordinator (2004-2007), and is currently Chair of the MLLL Scholarship Committee. His research and teaching specialties include 20th-century and Contemporary French Literature, Critical Theory, and 20th-century European Culture and Identity. He is Editor of Revue André Malraux Review, an international and bilingual academic journal devoted to French writer, Art historian, and Minister of Culture André Malraux. In 2007, he received the Cecil W. Woods Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Foreign Modern Languages.

Michel Lantelme has delivered lectures across the United States as well as in Northern Ireland, Malta, Canada, Portugal, Romania, Italy, and France (La Sorbonne University, Ministry of Culture, Collège International de Philosophie, Cerisy Cultural Center, Rencontres de la Ducherais) on topics such as the relation between body and writing, the "imagined" community, the preservation of historical monuments, the idea of nation, the representation of prehistoric times in literature, fiction and geography, literature by second generation immigrants, the figure of the father, the issues of mourning and inheritance, the myth of the end, repentance, the enigma of the name, the status of the Roma/Gypsies, etc.

Revue André Malraux Review, volumes 33-38, 2006-2011 (contributions by Maryse Condé, Rachid Boudjedra, Jacques Jouet, Jean Rouaud, Yves Ravey).

Lire Jean Rouaud, Armand Colin, coll. "Écrivains au présent", 2009.  

Le Roman contemporain. Janus postmoderne, L'Harmattan, coll. "Critiques littéraires", 2008.

Écrivains de la préhistoire, Presses Universitaires de Toulouse-Le Mirail, co-edited, 2004.

Malraux. Portrait avec mains, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2003.

Petits Coins. Lieux de mémoire, Revue des Sciences humaines #261, co-edited, 2001.

La Grande pitié des monuments de France, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 1998.