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
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
- FR11120 - Introduction to French Studies
- FR29110 - "...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
- FR12910 - Images of France: The French Family
- FR36120 - Humour and Literature
- FRM2020 - French Language (Advanced)
- FR26120 - Humour and Literature
- FR37020 - Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
- FR27020 - Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries
- FR32020 - French Language (Single Hons European Languages: Minor Language)
- FR39110 - "...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
- FR27820 - History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
- FR33440 - French Language (Advanced)
- FR37820 - History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
Moderator
- FR39110 - "...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
- FR29110 - "...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
Coordinator
- FR39110 - "...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
- FRM2020 - French Language (Advanced)
- FR36120 - Humour and Literature
- FR37020 - Self-writing, 18th-21st Centuries
- FR37820 - History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
- FR32020 - French Language (Single Hons European Languages: Minor Language)
- FR33440 - French Language (Advanced)
- FR29110 - "...ISMES" Cultural and Artistic Movements in 20th c. France
- FR26120 - Humour and Literature
- FR27020 - Self-Writing, 18th-21st Centuries
- FR27820 - History, Film and Memory: Representing World Wars in French cinema
- FR12910 - Images of France: The French Family
- FR11120 - Introduction to French Studies
Lecturer
- FR11120 - Introduction to French Studies
- EL10520 - Introduction to European Film
- EL10820 - Language, Culture, and Identity in Europe
- FR22140 - French Language (Intermediate)
- FR11940 - French Language (Non-Beginners)
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