Professor Annette Volfing FBA
Medieval German literature: mysticism; allegory; learned discourse (vernacular reception of the artes); didacticism; courtly romance; orientalism; discourses of gender and violence
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Medieval studies
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Current post
Professor of Medieval German Literature, University of Oxford; Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Elisabeth van Houts FBA
European history, 900-1300: Latin historiography, biographical writing and memorial traditions; Anglo-Continental socio-political relations and cultural exchange; the role of women and gender.
Professor Daniel Wakelin FBA
Medieval English literature and its circulation and reception in manuscripts and other material texts
Professor Anthony Paul Bale FBA
Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English (1954) at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. His research explores later medieval English literature and culture, with particular interests in Christian-Jewish relations, popular religion, pilgrimage and travel, the history of emotions, and codicology.
