From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Malcolm Bowie
Malcolm Bowie
Academic offices
Preceded by Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge Succeeded by
Alan Munro 2002–2006 Frank Kelly
Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA (5 May 1943 – 28 Jan- • The Times 6 Feb 2007 (Obituary) ’Professor Malcolm
uary 2007) was a British academic, and Master of Christ’s Bowie’
College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed • The Daily Telegraph 5 Feb 2007 (Obituary) ’Professor
scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books Malcolm Bowie’
on Marcel Proust. Persondata
Born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Bowie attended Wood-
Name Bowie, Malcolm
bridge School, and then studied at the University of Ed-
inburgh where he gained an MA in 1965. He was awarded Alternative names
a DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1970. His research Short description
fields were French literature, psychoanalysis and the re- Date of birth 5 May 1943
lationship between literature and the arts. He taught at
Place of birth
the University of East Anglia (1967–69), Clare College,
Cambridge (1969–76) and Queen Mary College, London. Date of death 28 January 2007
Bowie was elected to the Christ’s Mastership in 2002, Place of death
after spending ten years as Marshal Foch Professor of
French Literature and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Before going on to the Faculty of Medieval and Modern
Languages, University of Oxford, he held the Professor-
ship of French Language and Literature at Queen Mary
College (1976–92). While in London he was the Founding
Director of the Institute of Romance Studies (1989–92),
the School of Advanced Study, University of London. In
December 2006, he vacated the Mastership because of ill
health, and was made an Emeritus Fellow of Christ’s. He
was a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Soci-
ety of Literature, a Member of the Academia Europaea,
an Honorary Member of the Modern Language Associa-
tion of America, and an Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes
académiques. He served as President of the Society for
French Studies, the British Comparative Literature Asso-
ciation, and the Association of University Professors of
French, and held a Visiting Professorship at the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley and a Visiting Distinguished
Professorship at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.
His Proust Among The Stars (1998) won the 2001 Truman
Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
References
• Clive Scott, ’Professor Malcolm Bowie’ (Obituary),
The Independent 5 Feb 2007.
• Michael Sheringham, ’Professor Malcolm Bowie’
(Obituary), The Guardian 14 Feb 2007
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Malcolm Bowie
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