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Professor Elinor Shaffer FBA

Comparative Literature - English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1995
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website
http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/rbae/shaffer.htm

Current post

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Honorary Professor, University College London

Past appointments

University College London Honorary Professor

2014 -

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University of London Senior Fellow

1997 -

School of Advanced Study, University of London Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research

1997 -

All Souls College University of Oxford Visiting Fellow

1996 -

University of East Anglia Reader in English and Comparative Literature

1977 - 1997

Publications

'Kubla Khan' and the fall of Jerusalem. The mythological school in Biblical criticism and secular literature 1770-1880 1975

Comparative criticism 1979-2002

The reception of British and Irish authors in Europe 2001-

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stefan Collini FBA

Intellectual history and literary criticism

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Professor Diana Knight FBA

The nineteenth-century French novel, especially Balzac and Flaubert; the work of Roland Barthes; narrative and feminist theory

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Professor Simon Shepherd FBA

The cultural history of theatre practices and dramatic forms in Britain, including theories of performance, from the early-modern to the present day; the theatrical avant-gardes of melodrama and modernism

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