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Professor Peter Dunwoodie
Position held:
Emeritus Professor of French Literature
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7436
Email:
p.dunwoodie (@gold.ac.uk)
BA (Hons) French & English, University of Edinburgh, 1969; PhD, University of Edinburgh, 1974.
Professional activities
- Fellow, Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London
- Editorial Board member, Bulletin of Francophone Africa
- External examiner/assessor, Oxford, Manchester, London, Stirling, Essex, Westminster…
Research interests
My research focuses on: comparative literature, with special reference to French and English literatures; colonial and postcolonial writing, especially in the Maghreb and the Caribbean; the 20th-century French novel (in particular Camus and Céline); 19th and 20th-century francophone writing in Algeria.
Current project: a study of the links between literature and imperialism in the Algerian novel of the late 19th – early 20th-centuries.
Selected publications
- Forthcoming ‘Confrontation or Negotiation? Camus, Memory and the Colonial Chronotope’, in Camus in the 21st Century, L. Lincoln & M. Orme (eds.)
- Forthcoming ‘Assimilation, Cultural Identity and Permissible Deviance in Francophone Algerian Writing of the Inter-war Years’, in P. Lorcin (ed.), Algeria and France from the Colonial to the Present: Identity, Memory and Nostalgia
- 2005 Francophone Writing in Transition: Algeria 1900-1945
- 1998 Writing French Algeria
- 1998 (with E. Hughes, eds.) Constructing Memories: Camus , Algeria & ‘Le Premier Homme’
- 1996 Une Histoire ambivalente. Le Dialogue Camus-Dostoïevski
- 1989 (ed.) Colloque International L.-F. Céline, Londres
- 1985 Camus: L’Envers et l’Endroit et l’Exil et le Royaume