Etienne Augé PhD

Lecturer

Biographical Note

Etienne Augé received his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris after his MA in film studies from the Sorbonne Paris III. He also studied political science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Grenoble, film studies at  University of California at Irvine and cultural studies at The London Consortium, Birkbeck College. A former chairperson of the Mass communication department of University of Balamand near Tripoli, he taught for close to ten years in universities in Austria (Donau University at Krems), the Czech Republic (Anglo-American University, FAMU, Charles University), Lebanon (ALBA, University of Balamand, Université Saint Joseph, USEK) and Slovakia (Pan European University). Etienne Augé published two books on propaganda, his main field of research. Currently, he is working on a new book on Public Diplomacy and another one on science fiction with FAMU.

Etienne Augé also served at the French embassy in Beirut before being co-founder of a film production company in Paris. He works as a consultant in communication with colorblind strategies in Beirut and is a regular contributor to slate.fr, a French pure-player magazine partly owned by The Washington Post.