Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at the University of Paris VIII, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal Po&sie, Claude Mouchard has, among other things, published two historical-critical essays and several books of poems.
He has translated numerous works in collaboration, particularly plays and poetry collections. He was the editor of two special issues of the journal Po&sie, devoted respectively to contemporary Japanese poetry and contemporary South Korean poetry, and he worked to publish poets from the African continent in this journal.