Daniel FERRER is Directeur de recherche émérite at the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes, Paris (ITEM, CNRS/École Normale Supérieure, PSL, Paris).

He is chief editor of the journal Genesis.

He has written on Faulkner, Virginia Woolf (Virginia Woolf and the Madness of Language, Routledge, 1990), Poe, Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Proust, Barthes and Hélène Cixous, painting, digital humanities and film theory.

He has published extensively on genetic criticism (L’écriture et ses doubles : genèse et variation textuelle, Éditions du CNRS, 1991, Genèses du roman contemporain : Incipit et entrée en écriture, Éditions du CNRS, 1993, Pourquoi la critique génétique? Méthodes, théories, Éditions du CNRS, 1998, Bibliothèques d’écrivains, Éditions du CNRS, 2001, Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-textes, Pennsylvania U. P., 2004, La Textologie russe, Éditions du CNRS, 2007, Logiques du brouillon: modèles pour une critique génétique, Seuil 2011).

On Joyce, he has written more than 60 articles or chapters and coedited four collections of essays (Poststructuralist Joyce, Cambridge U. P., 1984, Ulysse à l’article: Joyce aux marges du roman, Lérot, 1992, Writing its own wrunes for ever: Essays in Joycean Genetics, Lérot, 1998, Renascent Joyce, University Press of Florida, 2013).

He is the editor (with V. Deane and G. Lernout) of the Finnegans Wake Notebooks at Buffalo (Brepols, 12 volumes, 2001-2004) and he has published the Tristan and Isolde related Finnegans Wake sketches (Brouillons d’un baiser: premiers pas vers Finnegans Wake, Gallimard, 2014).

His book Genetic Joyce. Manuscripts and the Dynamics of Creation has been published by University Press of Florida in 2023.