Dr Gavin Bowd, Senior Lecturer
Contact Information
gpb@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463643
Office: Buchanan 109
Research and Teaching
Gavin Bowd is Lecturer in French at St Andrews since 1997. His research covers various aspects of modern and contemporary France, Romania and Scotland: Communism and post-Communism; the remembrance and representation of war; colonial geography; geopoetics. Much of his research has been done in the archives of the Comintern (Moscow), the French and Romanian Communist Parties, and the Securitate (Bucharest), as well as in the Archives d'Outre-Mer (Aix-en-Provence). He has organised and co-organised international conferences on Situationist revolt, France and Romania, tropicality, Kenneth White and Michel Houellebecq. He is also a published translator, journalist and creative writer.
Publications
Bowd, GP
2011, '
De Gaulle, Ceausescu and May 1968
',
Twentieth Century Communism
, no. 3, pp. 131-147.
Bowd, GP
2011, '
Scotland for Franco: Charles Sarolea v. the Red Duchess
',
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies
, vol 31, no. 2, pp. 195-219.
Bowd, GP
2011, '
Emmanuel de Martonne et la naissance de la Grande Roumanie
',
Revue roumaine de geographie
.
Bowd, GP
2011, '
Emmanuel de Martonne et la defense de la Grande Roumanie
',
Studii si Materiale de Istorie Contemporana
.