Professor Alastair Fowler FBA

Elected 1974

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth: 1930
Year of death: 2022
Year elected: 1974
Sections: Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

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Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Virginia Professor of English

1990 - 1997

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

1972 - 1984

Brasenose College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in English Literature

1962 - 1971

University of Virginia Professor of English

Publications

Paradise lost (1998)

A history of English literature (1987)

Kinds of literature (1982)

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Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA

Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual culture, especially in France and the Low Countries; sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French literature; Neo-Latin Studies; the Republic of Letters; the Classical tradition

Professor Nico Mann FBA

Petrarch, early Italian Renaissance and the classical tradition

Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA

English Language and Literature

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Professor Alastair Fowler FBA

Last post

Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Virginia Professor of English

1990 - 1997

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

1972 - 1984

Brasenose College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in English Literature

1962 - 1971

University of Virginia Professor of English

Publications

Paradise lost (1998)

A history of English literature (1987)

Kinds of literature (1982)

Related Fellows

Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA

Professor Nico Mann FBA

Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA

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Professor Alastair Fowler FBA

Last post

Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

University of Virginia Professor of English

1990 - 1997

University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature

1972 - 1984

Brasenose College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in English Literature

1962 - 1971

University of Virginia Professor of English

Publications

Paradise lost (1998)

A history of English literature (1987)

Kinds of literature (1982)

Related Fellows

Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA

Professor Nico Mann FBA

Professor Sir Jonathan Bate FBA

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