10-Minute Talks: Crèvecœur: what is an American?

30 Jun 2021 Professor Judith Still FBA

Professor Judith Still FBA discusses the work of Crèvecœur, a farmer and complex thinker of the contradictions of American identity.

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Professor of French and Critical Theory, University of Nottingham

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stephanie Newell FBA

Stephanie Newell FBA's research focuses on the cultural histories of printing and reading in Ghana and Nigeria, including spaces of creativity and resistance in colonial-era newspapers.

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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

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Professor Brian Cummings FBA

Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy

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