Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA (/ˈboʊ.i/; 5 May 1943 – 28 January 2007) was a British academic, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006. An acclaimed scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books on Marcel Proust, as well as books on Mallarmé, Lacan, and psychoanalysis.
Born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Bowie attended Woodbridge School, and then studied at the University of Edinburgh where he gained an MA in 1965. He was awarded a DPhil at the University of Sussex in 1970. His research fields were French literature, psychoanalysis and the relationship between literature and the arts. He taught at the University of East Anglia (1967–69), Clare College, Cambridge (1969–76) and Queen Mary College, London.
Bowie was elected to the Christ's Mastership in 2002, 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 Professorship 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 Society of Literature, a Member of the Academia Europaea, an Honorary Member of the Modern Language Association 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 Association, and the Association of University Professors of French, and held a Visiting Professorship at the University 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.
Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie FBA (/ˈboʊ.i/; 5 May 1943 – 28 January 2007) was a British academic, and Master of Christ's College, Cambridge from 2002 to 2006...
Notes on Novelists. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 80. Quoted by MalcolmBowie, Introduction to Madame Bovary, translated by Margaret Mauldon, Oxford...
Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie (/ˈboʊi/ BOH-ee), was an English singer, songwriter, musician, and actor...
explication of that of others.: 46 Thus, his "return to Freud" was called by MalcolmBowie "a complete pattern of dissenting assent to the ideas of Freud . . ...
Truman (born 1941), Grand Slam tennis event winner, lives in Aldeburgh. MalcolmBowie (1943–2007), Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, 2002–2006. Peter...
Melvyn. "In Our Time: Proust". BBC Radio 4. April 17, 2003. See also MalcolmBowie, "Freud, Proust, and Lacan: Theory as Fiction," Cambridge: Cambridge...
David Bowie, released on 16 June 1972 in the United Kingdom through RCA Records. It was co-produced by Bowie and Ken Scott and features Bowie's backing...
(archive recordings) "Surrealism", BBC Radio 4 discussion with Dawn Adiss, MalcolmBowie and Darien Leader (In Our Time, Nov. 15, 2001) Heath, Nick. "1919–1950:...
Christopher Norris, 1987 Winnicott by Adam Phillips, 1988 Lacan by MalcolmBowie, 1991 Arendt by David Watson, 1992 Berlin by John Gray, 1995 Fontana's...
left glove (cf. SXIV: 19/4/67). — Michael Lewis paraphrasing Lacan MalcolmBowie interprets the Lacanian real as ineffable (i.e., uncanny). Fredric Jameson...
Professor at Imperial College, London 27 May 1999 Memory and Culture MalcolmBowie, Marshall Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University and...
Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (1988), and (edited with Sarah Kay and MalcolmBowie) A Short History of French Literature (2003). Cave is a member of the...
World: American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction 2001 MalcolmBowie – Proust Among the Stars 2002 Declan Kiberd – Irish Classics 2003 Seamus...
Fleurs du mal at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of MalcolmBowie before completing a doctorate on "the interface between high and popular...
a PhD (D.Phil) at Balliol College, Oxford under the supervision of MalcolmBowie. Brown then became a private equity lawyer in the City of London. Trained...
her doctoral thesis. Fairlie died in Cambridge in 1993. MalcolmBowie, ‘Fairlie, Alison Anna Bowie (1917–1993)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Hungarian-American psychiatrist, complications from Parkinson's disease. MalcolmBowie, 63, English scholar of French literature and Master of Christ's College...
2007) Žižek: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge: Polity, 2003) (with MalcolmBowie and Terence Cave) A Short History of French Literature (Oxford University...
the 'Malcolm Toft' brand which combines his various products under one identity. Selected engineering credits: 1967: David Bowie – David Bowie (1967...
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