Dr Gabor Gelleri

PhD in French Literature, ELTE, Budapest, 2005

PhD in French History, EHESS, Paris, 2009

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2016

I am on the editorial board of the travel writing studies online journal ‘Viatica’.

Module Coordinator

• 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)

Lecturer

• AB1 French Language (Intermediate) (FR22140)
• AB1 French Language (Non-Beginners) (FR11940)
• AB1 Introduction to European Film (EL10520)
• AB1 Introduction to French Studies (FR11120)
• AB1 Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe (EL10820)

• -

• 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.