Education
Born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Bowie attended Woodbridge School, and then studied at the University of Edinburgh where he gained an Master of Arts in 1965. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex in 1970.
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Malcolm Bowie
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An acclaimed scholar of French literature, Bowie wrote several books on Marcel Proust. His research fields were French literature, psychoanalysis and the relationship between literature and the arts He taught at the University of East Anglia (1967-1969), Clare College, Cambridge (1969-1976) 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 (1976-1992). While in London he was the Founding Director of the Institute of Romance Studies (1989-1992), 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"son 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 City University of New York Graduate Center in New New York
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Modern Language Association. Academia Europaea]
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.
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