Jean-Alexandre Perras Editor

Jean-Alexandre Perras holds a PhD in French literature from the University of Montreal and the University of Paris 8. His thesis, L’Exception exemplaire: inventions et usages du génie (XVI^e-XVIII^e siècle), was published in 2015. He is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, where his research focuses on the innovation strategies of eighteenth-century hairdressers.

Érika Wicky holds a PhD in art history from the University of Montreal. After her dissertation on nineteenth-century visual culture published under the title Les paradoxes du détail: Voir, savoir, representer à l’ère de la photographie (2015), she dedicated her research to the history of olfactory culture (eighteenth to twentieth century). She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow (University Lumière Lyon 2 / LARHRA), where she studies the smell of paint crossing history of art and history of sciences.