Simon Gaunt (1959-2021) was a professor of French literature at

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, where he was Head of the French Department and Head of the School of Humanities. He was past president of the Society for French Studies (2006-8), a Fellow of King's College, London from 2015 and an Honorary Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge from 2016. Gaunt did his graduate studies at the

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and then taught at the

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before moving to King's College to take up an established chair in 1998. In July 2018 Gaunt was elected Fellow of the

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(FBA). He died of complications from treatment for myeloma in December, 2021.

Publications

*''Marco Polo's 'Le Devisement du Monde'. Narrative Voice, Language and Diversity'' Gallica, Vol. 31 (D.S. Brewer, 2013) *'' Martyrs to Love: Love and Death in Medieval French and Occitan Courtly Literature'' (Oxford: OUP, 2006) * ''Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; pbk 2005) * ''Retelling the Tale: an Introduction to Medieval French Literature'' (London: Duckworth, 2001) * (with Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson) ''Marcabru: a Critical Edition'' (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000) * (with

Sarah Kay Sarah Kay is a professor of French at New York University. Education Kay was a student in the UK at the University of Oxford. Career She started her teaching career at the University of Liverpool then moved to the University of Cambridge. She w ...

) ''The Troubadours: an Introduction'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) * ''Troubadours and Irony'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)

References

External links

Gaunt's profile at King's College London
Academics of King's College London English literary critics Literary critics of French Alumni of the University of Warwick Academics of the University of Cambridge Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of King's College London Fellows of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Deaths from multiple myeloma {{Edu-bio-stub