Professor Peter Dunwoodie

Peter’s research on French and English literature gives special reference to colonial and postcolonial writing.

Staff details

Position

Emeritus Professor of French Literature

Department

English and Creative Writing

Email

english (@gold.ac.uk)

Academic qualifications

  • BA (Hons) French & English, University of Edinburgh, 1969
  • PhD, University of Edinburgh, 1974

Publications and research outputs

Book

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2006. Assimilation, Cultural Identity, and Permissible Deviance in Francophone Algerian Writing of the Interwar years. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 0815630743

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2006. From Noces to L'Etranger. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521840484

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2005. Francophone Writing in Transition: Algeria 1900-1945. Peter Lang. ISBN 303910294X

Edited Book

Dunwoodie, Peter and Hughes, Edward J., eds. 1998. Constructing Memories: Camus, Algeria and 'Le Premier Homme'. Stirling: Stirling French Studies. ISBN 1-85769-0559

Dunwoodie, Peter, ed. 1989. Actes du colloque international de Londres L.-F. Céline, 5-7 juillet 1988. Editions du Lérot.

Book Section

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2020. 'Ma vraie patrie' : Camus and Algeria. In: Matthew Sharpe; Maciej Kaluza and Peter Francev, eds. Brill's Companion to Camus: Camus among the Philosophers. Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 386-412. ISBN 9789004401747

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2008. Negotiation or Confrontation? Camus, Memory and the Colonial Chronotope. In: , ed. Albert Camus in the 21st Century. (308) Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, pp. 45-60. ISBN 978-90-420-2358-1

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2006. Assimilation, Cultural Identity, and Permissible Deviance in Francophone Algerian Writing of the Interwar years. In: Patricia M. E. Lorcin, ed. Algeria and France 1800-2000: Identity, Memory, Nostalgia. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, pp. 63-83. ISBN 0815630743

Article

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2010. Colonizing Space: Louis Bertrand’s Algeria in 'Le Sang des races' and 'Sur les routes du Sud’. Modern Language Review, 105(4), pp. 997-1014. ISSN 00267937

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2006. Postface: History, Memory and Identity. Today's Crisis, Yesterday's Issue. French History, 20(3), pp. 318-332. ISSN 02691191

Dunwoodie, Peter. 2003. 'Nos ancêtres les...' : le roman francophone algérien de l’entre-deux-guerres. Expressions Maghrébines, 2(1), pp. 5-22. ISSN 1540 0085

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.