Malcolm Bowie
Malcolm McNaughtan Bowie
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
Queen Mary College, London
.
Bowie was elected to the Christ's Mastership in 2002, after spending ten years as
CUNY
Graduate Center in New York.
His Proust Among The Stars (1998) won the 2001 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.
Selected contributions
Books
- Freud, Proust and Lacan: Theory as Fiction. Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN 9780521275880.
References
- Clive Scott, 'Professor Malcolm Bowie' (Obituary), The Independent 5 February 2007.
- Michael Sheringham, 'Professor Malcolm Bowie' (Obituary), The Guardian 14 February 2007
- The Times 6 February 2007 (Obituary) 'Professor Malcolm Bowie'
- The Daily Telegraph 5 February 2007 (Obituary) 'Professor Malcolm Bowie'
- Bowie appears as a character, under his own name, in Stephen Henighan's novel The World of After.