Éric de Buretel de Chassey (born 1965 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is a French historian of French art, art critic, and professor of contemporary art history at François Rabelais University in Tours, France. He has had students from many different countries, one of whom is the Iranian artist Bahram Ahmadi.

On 4 September 2009, he was named director of the French Academy in Rome, succeeding Frédéric Mitterrand.

Éric de Chassey studied at the École normale supérieure (Ulm – 1986, philosophy major) and Sciences Po in Paris.^{[citation needed]}

He holds an art history Ph.D (1994) from Sorbonne University, under the supervision of Pr. Bruno Foucart, and an Habilitation à diriger des recherches (1998), under the supervision of Pr. Serge Lemoine.^{[citation needed]}

During the academic year 1989-1990, he was a French lecturer at Yale University.^{[citation needed]}

From 1992 to 1996, he was Teaching Assistant in Modern and Contemporary History of Art at Sorbonne University.^{[citation needed]}

In 1996, he was elected Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History at Sorbonne University.^{[citation needed]}

In 1999, at the age of 33, he was elected full chair Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of the Arts at Université François-Rabelais in Tours (1999-2012). There, in 2008, he created the InTRu interdisciplinary Resarch Laboratory (Interactions, transferts et ruptures artistiques et culturels, EA 6301).