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 Leslie Hill FBA

French Language and Literature Critical and Cultural Theory - Modern Languages Textual Studies Film and Media History Philosophy

Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA

Psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary research into gender/sexual difference and sibling/social group relationships using literature to analyse the horizontal axis missing from social theory

Professor Sharon Monteith FBA

American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the U.S. South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle

Professor Sir Christopher Ricks FBA

Current post

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 Leslie Hill FBA

Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA

Professor Sharon Monteith FBA

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Professor Sir Christopher Ricks FBA

Current post

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 Leslie Hill FBA

Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA

Professor Sharon Monteith FBA

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