Dr. Paul Gibbard

Biography

Paul Gibbard completed his doctorate on anarchism in late nineteenth-century French and English literature at Oxford University. He has worked as a researcher for the scholarly edition of 'Œuvres complètes de Voltaire' ('Complete Works of Voltaire') at the Voltaire Foundation in Oxford. After returning to Australia, he has taught and researched at several universities, including the University of Adelaide, University of Melbourne, Monash University, and University of New England. He has been involved in numerous research projects funded by the Australian Research Council, including the Baudin Legacy project and the project on 'The Political Thought of Enlightenment Women' as a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. His research mainly focuses on French literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, with interests in the history of French exploration in Australia. Current projects include translating a novel by Colette for the Oxford World's Classics series and writing a biography of the French botanist Théodore Leschenault, who came to Australia during the Baudin expedition from 1800 to 1804. Gibbard teaches various courses in French studies, including French language and cinema, and supervises research in topics related to Voltaire, Rousseau, eighteenth-century women's writing, and the nineteenth-century French novel.

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