Professor Sir Brian Vickers FBA

Critical and Cultural Theory - English Language and Literature Textual Studies - English Language and Literature Greek and Latin Philology and Linguistics Historical Linguistics
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1998
Subjects
Linguistics, Literature

Current post

Distinguished Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Emeritus Professor, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zuerich

Past appointments

School of Advanced Study, University of London Emeritus Professor, Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule, Zuerich, and Distinguished Senior Fellow

2004 -

Other Foreign Institutions Emeritus Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zürich

1975 - 2003

Other Foreign Institutions Professor of English and Renaissance Literature, and Director of the Centre for Renaissance Studies

1975 - 2003

Corpus Christi College University of Cambridge

1964 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor James Hankins FBA

Intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, specialising in political thought and the reception of ancient philosophy; history of humanism and the Latin literature of the Renaissance

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Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA

Early modern German culture; European court culture, especially festivals, of the early modern period; the representation of women in German literature; writing by women in German.

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Professor Neil Kenny FBA

Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.

Neil Kenny FBA

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