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 Regenia Gagnier FBA

Victorian and modern British literature and culture; geopolitics of language and literature migration; world literature and political economy

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Professor James Williams FBA

James Williams' research interests include francophone postcolonial studies, particularly West and Central African cinema; post-war French and European film; modern and contemporary French literature; gender and sexuality; migration and diasporic cultures; Holocaust cinema; the archives.

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Professor Richard McCabe FBA

Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.

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