Dr Gabor Gelleri
PhD in French Literature, ELTE, Budapest, 2005
PhD in French History, EHESS, Paris, 2009
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2016
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Senior Lecturer
Department of Modern Languages
Contact Details
- Email: gag9@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0003-4476-6043
- Office: D35, Hugh Owen Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 622560
- Twitter: @gaborgelleri
- Research Portal Profile
- Personal Pronouns: he/him
Profile
I am a specialist of French culture, literature and history, specializing in cultures of travel. I hold a PhD in History from the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2009), and a PhD in French from ELTE University Budapest (2005), as well as an MA in Cultural Anthropology. I have not yet decided whether I am a historian, a literary scholar or maybe a specialist of historical anthropology, and must admit I am happy to live in uncertainty on this point.
Additional Information
I am on the editorial board of the travel writing studies online journal ‘Viatica’.
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- FR27820 - History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
- FRM2020 - French Language (Advanced)
- FR11120 - Introduction to French Studies
- FR32020 - French Language (Single Hons European Languages: Minor Language)
- FR19930 - French Language Advanced
- FR37820 - History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
- FR12910 - Images of France: The French Family
- FR30040 - Dissertation (Single Honours French)
- FR30130 - French Language
- FR27020 - Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries
- FR23320 - L'Art Du Récit (19e - 20e Siècles)
- FR37020 - Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
- FR33320 - L'Art Du Rêcit (19e - 20e Siècles)
Lecturer
- EL30120 - Dissertation
- FR11120 - Introduction to French Studies
- EL10820 - Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- EL20510 - Extended Essay Module
- EL30510 - Extended Essay Module
- FR30130 - French Language
- FR19930 - French Language Advanced
- FR33320 - L'Art Du Rêcit (19e - 20e Siècles)
- FR30040 - Dissertation (Single Honours French)
- FR23320 - L'Art Du Récit (19e - 20e Siècles)
- EL10520 - Introduction to European Film
- FR20310 - Language of Business 1
Coordinator
- FR27820 - History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
- FR32020 - French Language (Single Hons European Languages: Minor Language)
- FR37820 - History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
- FRM2020 - French Language (Advanced)
- FR12910 - Images of France: The French Family
- FR37020 - Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
- FR27020 - Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries
- FR30130 - French Language
- FR33320 - L'Art Du Rêcit (19e - 20e Siècles)
- FR11120 - Introduction to French Studies
- FR23320 - L'Art Du Récit (19e - 20e Siècles)
- FR19930 - French Language Advanced
- FR30040 - Dissertation (Single Honours French)
Moderator
- FR29110 - "...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
- FR39110 - "...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
- FR38020 - Narrating and Visualising French Colonialism
- FR28020 - Narrating and Visualising French Colonialism
I teach a variety of modules in the department. I teach literary, cultural and historical content modules on Fantastic Literature, Humour, Self-Writing and and a research skills module on Travel and Literature. I share with colleagues in French the first year module Introduction to French Studies. I teach the French component of Language and European Identity. My language teaching covers translation and grammar at all levels.
Research
- I am a scholar of cultures of travel and mobility in the French-speaking world, with further interests in translation and the history of journalism
- My first monograph, "Philosophies du voyage: visiter l'Angleterre aux 17e-18e siècles" was published in 2016 by the Voltaire Foundation (Oxford). I have published papers, mostly on matters relating to travel in early modern France, in Nottingham French Studies, Compar(a)ison, Seventeenth-Century French Studies and La Lecture littéraire, as well as in a series of conference volumes.
- My second monograph, : "Lessons of Travel in 18th-Century France: From Grand Tour to School Trips", was published in spring 2020 with Boydell and Brewer for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studes)
- I co-edited a volume with Dr Rachel Willie (Liverpool John Moores), 'Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World' (Routledge).
- I am currently exploring, through a case study of 1924, the intersection between travel, tourism, colonialism and questions of gender. In 2021, I received a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for my study of 'travellee reactions' to colonial travel.
Responsibilities
I am the Admissions and Marketing tutor of the Department of Modern Languages