University Fellow in French Studies

MA DPhil (Oxford)

Contact Details

• Email: modern.lang@le.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2683
• Subject: French

Research Summary

Peter Fawcett's main research interest is the life and works of André Gide. He is the co-editor of Gide's correspondance with Jean Schlumberger (1993) and of the triangular correspondance between Gide, Pierre Louÿs and Paul Valéry (2004).

Recent Publications

'Sur les origines d'un nom gidien : Ellis dans Le Voyage d'Urien', Bulletin des Amis d'André Gide, 146, avril 2005, pp 179-184.

'Remarques sur la Correspondance Gide - Valéry' Bulletin des Amis d'André Gide, 147, julliet 2005, pp 309-325.

André Gide - Pierre Louÿs - Paul Valéry, Correspondance à trois voix (1888 - 1920) éd, Peter Fawcett et Pascal Mercier, Paris : Gallimard, 2004, 1679 pp

(with Robert Steele) 'Venus and the Journal of André Gide', Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 113 (2003), pp 217-219.

'Remarques sur la Correspondance Gide-Valéry (1890-1895)' in Paul Valéry - André Gide : Correspodances, éd Frédéric Canovas, Paris : L'Harmmattan, 2003. pp 185-197.