Professor Marian Hobson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1999
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern languages
Current post
Emerita Professor of French, Queen Mary University of London
Past appointments
Queen Mary University of London Professor of French
1992 -
Trinity College University of Cambridge Fellow
1977 - 1992
University of Geneva University Lecturer
1973 - 1976
British Academy appointments
Member of Council
Publications
The object of art: the theory of illusion in 18th century France
Marian Hobson - Published in 1982
Jacques Derrida: opening lines
Marian Hobson - Published in 1998
Diderot, Lettre sur les aveugles, lettres sur les sourds et muets
Marian Hobson - Published in 2000 by Flammarion
Diderot and Rousseau: Networks of Enlightenment
Marian Hobson - Published in 2011 by Oxford, SVEC
Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew
Edited by Marian Hobson, translated by Kate E. Tunstall, and Caroline Warman - Published in 2016
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Nigel Leask FBA
Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.
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
Professor Esther Leslie FBA
Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium
