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Professor Sir Christopher Ricks FBA

English Language and Literature

Elected 1975

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected: 1975
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830

Current post

Professor of the Humanities, Boston University

Past appointments

Boston University Professor of the Humanities

1986 -

Other Foreign Institutions Professor of the Humanities, Boston University

1986 -

University of Cambridge Professor of English Literature

1975 - 1986

University of Bristol Professor of English

1968 - 1975

Worcester College University of Oxford Fellow

1958 - 1968

Publications

The poems of Tennyson (3 vols) 1987

The force of poetry 1986

T S Eliot and prejudice 1988

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Professor Peter France FBA

French Language and Literature

Professor Jim Reed FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures

Professor Richard Gray FBA

American Literature

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