Professor Simon Gaunt FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2018
- Year of birth
- 1959
- Year of death
- 2021
- Subjects
- Literature, Medieval studies, Modern languages
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Summary
Simon Gaunt was a Professor of French Language and Literature at King’s College London, where he had been Head of French and Head of the School of Arts and Humanities. He was President of the Society for French Studies from 2006-2008, became a Fellow of King’s College London in 2015, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in 2016. His books have ranged widely over medieval Occitan and Old French literature. As a literary critic, his work has been informed at various stages by feminist and queer theory, by psychoanalysis by postcolonial approaches, and most recently by Romance philology and linguistics. Much of his recent work had been concerned with French as a transnational language in the Middle Ages and he had directed two major collaborative projects concerned with this topic: Medieval Francophone Literature Culture outside France, funded by the AHRC, and The Values of French, funded by the ERC.
Last post
King’s College London Professor of French Language and Literature
Past appointments
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University Lecturer and Official Fellow
1988 - 1998
Downing College, Cambridge Research Fellow
1986 - 1988
Publications
The Song of Roland and Other Poems of Charlemagne
Simon Gaunt and Karen Pratt - Published in 2016 by Oxford University Press
Marco Polo’s Le Devisement du Monde: Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity
Simon Gaunt - Published in 2013 by Cambridge University Press; D.S. Brewer
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
Edited by Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay - Published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press
Martyrs to Love: Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature
Simon Gaunt - Published in 2006 by Oxford University Press
Retelling the Tale: An Introduction to Medieval French Literature
Simon Gaunt - Published in 2001 by Bristol Classical Press
Marcabru: a Critical Edition
Edited by Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson - Published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press; D.S. Brewer
The Troubadours: An Introduction
Simon Gaunt, Sarah Kay - Published in 1999 by Cambridge University Press
Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature
Simon Gaunt - Published in 1995 by Cambridge University Press
Troubadours and Irony
Simon Gaunt - Published in 1989 by Cambridge University Press
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor David L. d'Avray FBA
Social Theory; Early Modern History; Religious Studies; Medieval History - Medieval Studies
Professor Bruce Campbell FBA
The economic history of late-medieval Britain and Ireland, with particular reference to human-environment interactions during the 14th century and trends in agricultural output and productivity from the 13th to 19th centuries
