Professor Alison Shell FBA

Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

University College London Professor of Early Modern Studies, Department of English

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Aurora Egido FBA

History and Critique of 16th and 17th centuries of Spanish Literature in its variables subjects, genres and authors, from Garcilaso to Gracián (including Santa Teresa, Cervantes, Góngora and Calderón, among others), with studies and critical editions

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Professor David McCallam

Environmental humanities in early modern Europe, particularly in France; the French Revolution; 18th century French literature; translation studies.

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Professor Martin Butler FBA

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the drama and theatre; Ben Jonson and his circle; the court masque; textual editing

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