Simon Gaunt
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Simon Gaunt is a professor of French literature at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
. He is also president of the Society for French Studies
Society for French Studies
The Society for French Studies, or SFS, is the oldest learned association for French Studies in the UK and Ireland. It aims to promote teaching and research in French Studies within higher education....
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Gaunt did his graduate studies at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick
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and then taught at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
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before moving to King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
in 1998.
In 2007, Gaunt won a Distinguished Supervisor Award for his teaching at King's College London
King's College London
King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...
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Publications
- Martyrs to Love: Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature (Oxford: OUP, 2006)
- Retelling the Tale: an Introduction to Medieval French Literature (London: Duckworth, 2001)
- Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; pbk 2005)
- Troubadours and Irony (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
- (with Sarah KaySarah KaySarah Kay is a professor of French at New York University.Kay was a student in the UK at the University of Oxford. She started her teaching career at the University of Liverpool then moved to the University of Cambridge. She was head of department at Cambridge from 1996 until 2001 and Director of...
) The Troubadours: an Introduction (Cambridge: Ccambridge University Press, 1999) - (with Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson) Marcabru: a Critical Edition (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000)