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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Angela Leighton FBA

English Language and Literature

Professor John Kerrigan FBA

Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats

Professor Emma Wilson FBA

Modern and contemporary French cinema; gender and sexuality; the visual arts; writing by women; contemporary Italian cinema

Professor Emma Wilson

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