Dr Gabor Gelleri
PhD in French Literature, ELTE, Budapest, 2005
PhD in French History, EHESS, Paris, 2009
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2016
Senior Lecturer
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 (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/b28ad5ff-9e45-44da-9be4-1390429a4055)
- Personal Pronouns: he/him
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.
I am the Admissions and Marketing tutor of the Department of Modern Languages
I am on the editorial board of the travel writing studies online journal ‘Viatica’.
- AB1 Introduction to French Studies (FR11120)
- AB2 Humour and Literature (FR26120)
- AB1 Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries (FR27020)
- AB2 History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema (FR27820)
- AB1 French Language (Advanced) (FR33440)
- AB2 Humour and Literature (FR36120)
- AB1 Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries (FR37020)
- AB2 History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema (FR37820)
- AB1 French Language (Advanced) (FRM2020)
Module Coordinator
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- 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.
In: Studies in Travel Writing, Vol. 27, No. 2, 27.01.2025, p. 113-131.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
In: Early Modern Women - An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2025, p. 195-197.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article Review › peer-review
Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection. ed. / Charles Forsdick; Zoë Kinsley ; Kate Walchester. Anthem Press, 2024. p. 49-63 (Anthem Studies in Travel).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
In: Studies in Travel Writing, Vol. 26, No. 4, 20.08.2024, p. 341-356.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
In: Viatica, Vol. 10, 15, 31.10.2023.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
