Paul Gibbard

My research lies mainly in French literature and travel writing from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. I studied the influence of anarchist thought on French and English writing at the turn of the nineteenth century for my doctorate and after that worked as an editor of the French edition of the 'Complete Works of Voltaire' in Oxford. Since returning to Australia I have worked on various ARC-funded projects: on women's political thought during the eighteenth century, on the history of emotions, and on the journals of the Baudin expedition to Australian (1800-1804), and am currently senior lecturer in French at the University of Western Australia. My two most recent books are translations: of Emile Zola's 'The Dream' (Oxford University Press, 2018) and 'The French Collector' (UWA Publishing, 2023), on the newly discovered journal of the French botanist Théodore Leschenault who explored Australia in the years 1801-1803.