Professor Edgar Yates FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures; History; Viennese Theatre; History in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Western Europe; Austria; Germany; France

Elected 2002

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year of birth: 1938
Year of death: 2021
Year elected: 2002
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830

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Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

Past appointments

University of Exeter Professor of German

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Durham Lecturer in German

1963 - 1972

Publications

Bin Dichter nur der Posse: Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Versuch einer Biographie 2012

Nestroy, Hist.-krit. Ausg. 43 vols in 57, 1977-2010

Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal and the Austrian theatre 1992

Theatre in Vienna: a critical history 1776-1995 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Patricia Waugh FBA

Modern literary studies and intellectual history, with specific interests in the modern and contemporary novel; literature, science and medicine; cultural theory and modernist aesthetics

Professor Michael Wood FBA

Modern & contemporary literature in English, French, German & Spanish; literary theory; theory of the novel; the history of criticism

Professor Peter Brooks FBA

Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture

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Professor Edgar Yates FBA

Last post

Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

Past appointments

University of Exeter Professor of German

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Durham Lecturer in German

1963 - 1972

Publications

Bin Dichter nur der Posse: Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Versuch einer Biographie 2012

Nestroy, Hist.-krit. Ausg. 43 vols in 57, 1977-2010

Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal and the Austrian theatre 1992

Theatre in Vienna: a critical history 1776-1995 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Patricia Waugh FBA

Professor Michael Wood FBA

Professor Peter Brooks FBA

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Professor Edgar Yates FBA

Last post

Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

Past appointments

University of Exeter Professor of German

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Durham Lecturer in German

1963 - 1972

Publications

Bin Dichter nur der Posse: Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Versuch einer Biographie 2012

Nestroy, Hist.-krit. Ausg. 43 vols in 57, 1977-2010

Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal and the Austrian theatre 1992

Theatre in Vienna: a critical history 1776-1995 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Patricia Waugh FBA

Professor Michael Wood FBA

Professor Peter Brooks FBA

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