Professor Francesca Orsini FBA
Literatures of South Asia; multilingual and located approach to world literature; book history in South Asia
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, SOAS, University of London
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Daniel Potts FBA
The archaeology and history of the Near East, particularly the Iranian world, from antiquity to the pre-modern era
Dr Miranda Morris FBA
Dr Miranda Morris' research interests focus on the six unwritten Semitic languages of southern Arabia and Soqotra, known as the Modern South Arabian Languages (MSAL), and the fast-disappearing knowledge systems and cultural practices of their speakers.
Professor Anne Gerritsen FBA
Late imperial China, the early modern history of exchange between Asia and Europe, and especially the material culture of global exchange, therapeutic commodities, and the cultures and practices of merchants
