Daniel Gunn

Daniel Gunn is a Professor at the American University of Paris (AUP), where he has been a full-time faculty member since 1989. He teaches courses spanning Shakespeare to post-war European fiction, with a focus on British, French, and Italian literatures. As founder and director of AUP’s Center for Writers & Translators, he bridges academic scholarship with creative practice through his editorial work on the Cahiers Series and Samuel Beckett’s correspondence.

• D.Phil., University of Sussex
• MA in Twentieth-Century Literature, University of Sussex
• BA, University of Sussex

Gunn’s research sits at the intersection of twentieth-century European literature, translation theory, and scholarly editing. His articles explore modernist aesthetics (particularly Beckett and Proust), creative nonfiction boundaries, and editorial challenges in multilingual texts. He contributes regularly to the Times Literary Supplement as a reviewer and essayist.

His editorial projects include co-editing four volumes of Samuel Beckett’s letters (1929-1989) and editing Muriel Spark’s correspondence. Recent lectures examine topics like Beckett’s correspondence at Cambridge symposia and translation dynamics at Edinburgh International Book Festival. Gunn also supervises creative writing theses and explores the interplay between fiction and nonfiction in his own literary works.