Simon Gaunt FBA (4 July 1959 – 4 December 2021)[1][2][3] was a professor of French literature at King's College London, where he was Head of the French Department and Head of the School of Humanities.
He was past president of the Society for French Studies (2006-8), a Fellow of King's College, London from 2015 and an Honorary Fellow of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge from 2016.
Simon attended Bishop Wordsworth's School, Salisbury 1970 to 1977, living in Godshill, Hampshire at that time.
In July 2018 Gaunt was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).
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