Professor James Hankins FBA

Intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, specialising in political thought and the reception of ancient philosophy; history of humanism and the Latin literature of the Renaissance
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
History, Literature

Current post

Professor of History, Harvard University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Barrell FBA

English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography

Photo of John Barrell FBA, holding his hat with a blue sky with light clouds behind him, indicating the location of the photo is at high altitude.

Professor Andrew Kahn FBA

18th-century literature and thought in Russia and Europe; comparative Enlightenment historiography; Russian poetry (Pushkin, Mandelstam, Brodsky) and its intellectual, political, and cultural contexts; practice of literary history

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