Geoffrey Gilbert

Geoffrey Gilbert serves as Professor and Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at The American University of Paris (AUP), where he has taught since 1999 after previously instructing at Cambridge University. His academic appointment spans the Department of Comparative Literature, English, and Creative Writing.

Education:

• PhD in English Literature, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (1995)
• MA (Hons) in English Literature, Aberdeen University (1989)

His research centers on literature as cultural behavior, prioritizing modernism, translation studies, and cultural studies. He investigates literature's relationship to economics, politics, and sexuality through frameworks like affect theory and queer theory, currently focusing on translation's role in global forces and contemporary realism. His approach rejects literature as mere representation, instead examining its situatedness within historical contexts.

Analysis of his publications reveals evolving engagement from early modernist studies (Wyndham Lewis, Henry James) toward contemporary concerns with affect, queer theory, and global realism. His work consistently interrogates literature's societal value using economic metaphors, with recent scholarship emphasizing translation practices and the intersection of literary form with economic processes in globalization contexts.