University of St Andrews

School of Modern Languages

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

Un géographe français et la Roumanie. Emmanuel de Martonne (1873-1955)
Bowd, G. P. 2012 L'Harmattan . 217 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Les guerres et les mots du general Paul Azan
Bowd, G. P. 2010 Paris: L'Harmattan . 237 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

La France et la Roumanie communiste
Bowd, G. P. 2009 L'Harmattan . 391 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Paul Morand si Romania
Bowd, G. P. 2008 Editura Corint . 263 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Le dernier communard, Adrien Lejeune
Bowd, G. P. 2007 L'Harmattan . 190 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Comintern Cadre. The Passion of Allan Eaglesham
Bowd, G. P. 2006 Socialist History Society . 38 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Le Monde de Houellebecq
Bowd, G. P. 2006 University of Glasgow French and German Publications . 286 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Memoria razboiului, 1941-1945, (The memory of the 1941-1945 war)
Bowd, G. P. 2006 Pro Historia, Bucharest . 143 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Grounding a World: Essays on the work of Kenneth White: the St Andrews Symposium organised by Gavin Bowd and Charles Forsdick at the University of St Andrews, 10-11 October 2003
Bowd, G. P. & Forsdick, C. 2005 Alba Editions . 226 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Paul Morand et la Roumanie
Bowd, G. P. 2002 L'Harmattan . 152 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

L'Interminable enterrement. Le communisme et les intellectuels français depuis 1956
Bowd, G. P. 1999 Diagraphe . 220 p.
Research output : Book/Report › Book

Géopoétiques de l'Indochine: Gourou, Inguimberty, Duras
Bowd, G. P. 2008 In: Les tropiques des géographes. Velasco-Graciet, H. (ed.). Maison des Sciences de l'Homme d'Aquitaine , p. 15-25.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

The World of Michel Houellebecq
Bowd, G. P. 2007 In: La France face à la mondialisation =:France and the struggle against globalization: bilingual essays on the role of France in the world. Maher, E. & O'Brien, E. (eds.). Edwin Mellen , p. 115-127.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Isidore Isou, lettrisme et roumanité
Bowd, G. P. 2007 In: La Francopolyphonie. Langues et identités: colloque international = Francopolifonia : limbi și identități : colocviu internațional : Chișinău, ULIM, 23-24 mars 2007. Université Libre Internationale de Moldova , p. 132-139.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Doua fronturi, voci multiple: al Doilea Razboi Mondial reflectat in scrisorile si jurnalele soldatilor romani
Bowd, G. P. 2006 In: Hegemoniile trecutului: evolutii romanesti si europene: profesorului Ioan Chiper la 70 de ani. Anton, M., Anghel, F. & Popa, C. (eds.). Curtea Veche , p. 285-292.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Romania and la francophonie since Ceausescu
Bowd, G. P. 2004 In: Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie. Rocheron, Y. & Wolfe, C. (eds.). Peter Lang Publishing , p. 81-92.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

The End of the Affair? Intellectuals in Contemporary France
Bowd, G. P. 2004 In: Contemporary French Cultures and Societies. Royall, F. (ed.). Peter Lang Publishing , p. 93-108.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

'Le Temps s'étrangle. Mourons'. The Death of Guillevic
Bowd, G. P. 2000 In: Dying Words The Last Moments of Writers and Philosophers, Rodopi, Amsterdam. Crowley, M. (ed.). p. 138-148.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

La Cruauté de l'Histoire: Ian Hamilton Finlay et la Révolution française.
Bowd, G. P. 2000 In: La Nouvelle Alliance Influences francophones sur la litterature Ecossaise. Kinloch, D. & Price, R. (eds.). Ellug , p. 91-114.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Emmanuel de Martonne et la Roumanie communiste
Bowd, G. P. 2012 In : Studii si Materiale de Istorie Contemporana . 11 , p. 84-109. 25 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Geographical warfare in the tropics: Yves Lacoste and the Vietnam War
Clayton, D. & Bowd, G. P. 2012 In : ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS . 21 p. , art. no. DOI:10.1080/00045608.2011.653729
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Emmanuel de Martonne et la défense de la Grande Roumanie
Bowd, G. P. 2011 In : Studii si Materiale de Istorie Contemporana . 10 , p. 16-44. 19 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Emmanuel de Martonne et la naissance de la Grande Roumanie
Bowd, G. P. 2011 In : Revue roumaine de geographie . 55 , 2 , p. 103-120. 18 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Scotland for Franco: Charles Sarolea v. the Red Duchess
Bowd, G. P. 2011 In : Journal of Scottish Historical Studies . 31 , 2 , p. 195-219.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

De Gaulle, Ceausescu and May 1968
Bowd, G. P. 2011 In : Twentieth Century Communism . 3 , p. 131-147.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Rimbaud in a sporran? The French Scotland of Kenneth White
Bowd, G. P. Sep-2009 In : Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies . 2 , 1 , p. 171-186.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Une amitié finissante: le parti communiste français et la Roumanie en 1986
Bowd, G. P. 2009 In : Studii si Materiale de Istorie Contemporana . VIII , p. 207-211.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

'Retrouver l'avenir impossible': Paul Morand in Tangier
Bowd, G. P. Sep-2007 In : Dalhousie French Studies . 80 , p. 123-133.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

In defence of culture: texts of the International Congress of Writers. Paris, June 1935.
Bowd, G. Jan-2007 In : French Studies . 61 , p. 119-119. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Gheorghe Tatarescu et les „retrouvailles“ franco-roumaines
Bowd, G. P. 2007 In : Studii si Materiale de Istorie Contemporana . 6 , p. 205-211.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Julien Gracq, vol 4, literary references and presence.
Bowd, G. Oct-2006 In : Modern Language Review . 101 , p. 1144-1144. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Redefining resistance: The poetic wartime discourses of Francis Ponge, Benjamin Peret, Henri Michaux and Antonin Artaud.
Bowd, G. Jul-2006 In : French Studies . 60 , p. 413-414. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Romanian Voices of the Second World War: Remembrance and Repression
Bowd, G. P. Mar-2006 In : East European Quarterly . 40 , 1 , p. 109-133. 25 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

The Second World War in Romanian Soldiers' Memoirs, 1944-1989
Bowd, G. P. 2006 In : Studii si Materiale de Istorie Contemporana . 5 , p. 41-56.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

French Tropical Geographies: Editor's introduction
Bowd, G. P. & Clayton, D. W. Nov-2005 In : Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography . 26 , 3 , p. 271-288. 18 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

In hollowness of the times: prophetic word, novelistic word
Bowd, G. Oct-2005 In : French Studies . 59 , p. 583-583. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Joe Bousquet novelist
Bowd, G. Jul-2005 In : French Studies . 59 , p. 426-426. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Paul Morand: short story writer
Bowd, G. Apr-2005 In : French Studies . 59 , p. 272-273. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Tropicality, Orientalism, and French Colonialism in Indochina: The Work of Pierre Gourou, 1927-1982
Bowd, G. P. & Clayton, D. W. Apr-2005 In : French Historical Studies . 28 , 2 , p. 297-327. 32 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

The novel of democracy.
Bowd, G. Jan-2005 In : French Studies . 59 , p. 131-131. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Qui est le contemporain? Jean Ristat
Bowd, G. P. Oct-2004 In : Neophilologus . 88 , 4 , p. 521-532. 11 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

The Political Landscapes of Julien Gracq
Bowd, G. P. 2004 In : Dalhousie French Studies . 66 , p. 121-134.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Fieldwork and Tropicality in French Indochina: Reflections on Pierre Gourou's Les Paysans Du Delta Tonkinois ,1936
Bowd, G. P. & Clayton, D. W. Jun-2003 In : Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography . 24 , 2 , p. 147-168. 22 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Aragon, Elsa Triolet and foreign cultures
Bowd, G. Apr-2003 In : French Studies . 57 , p. 262-263. 2 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Studies on Louis Aragon
Bowd, G. Apr-2003 In : French Studies . 57 , p. 261-262. 2 p.
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Michel Houellebecq and the pursuit of happiness
Bowd, G. 2002 In : Nottingham French Studies . 41 , p. 28-39. 12 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Myth and the sacred in the poetry of Guillevic
Bowd, G. Jul-1999 In : French Studies . 53 , p. 356-356. 1 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Poetry after God: The Reinvention of the Sacred in the Work of Eugene Guillevic and Kenneth White.
Bowd, G. P. 1997 In : Dalhousie French Studies . 39/40 , p. 159-180.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Dans la folie d'une colère très juste: Valère Staraselski, Paul Nizan and the Communist Militant
Bowd, G. P. 1995 In : Dalhousie French Studies . 30 , p. 135-146.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Comment meurt un journal: Jean Ristat and the Second Life of Les Lettres françaises
Bowd, G. P. 1995 In : French Cultural Studies . vi , p. 79-99.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

On the Borders: Geopoetics, Geopolitics
Bowd, G. P. Jun-1994 In : Edinburgh Review . 92 , p. 131-140.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

G. Guillevic and Poésie Nationale: the Final Crisis of French Zhdanovism
Bowd, G. P. Apr-1993 In : Forum for Modern Language Studies . xxix , 2 , p. 111-125. 15 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Article

Geographical warfare in the tropics
Clayton, D. & Bowd, G. P. 2009 28 p.
Research output : Contribution to conference › Paper

French Tropical Geographies
Bowd, G. P. & Clayton, D. W. Nov-2005 In : Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography . 26 , 3 , p. 113. 113 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Special issue

Une poésie des choses: Terraqué et Le Parti pris des choses
Bowd, G. P. , Rouget, F. (ed.) & Stout, J. (ed.) 2001
Research output : Other contribution

Paul Morand, Vichy Ambassador to Bucharest
Bowd, G. P. 2001
Research output : Other contribution

France-Romania: Twentieth-Century Cultural Exchanges.
Bowd, G. P. Apr-2000 In : Forum for Modern Language Studies . XXXVI , 2 , p. 113-184. 5 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal › Special issue

'The Outsiders': Alexander Trocchi and Kenneth White
Bowd, G. P. 1998
Research output : Other contribution

La valse des adieux: texte, mensonge et politique
Bowd, G. P. 1997
Research output : Other contribution