Professor Antoine Compagnon FBA
French Renaissance prose; 19th and 20th-century French literature and culture; history of criticism; theory of literature
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Professeur au Collège de France, chaire de littérature française moderne et contemporaine: histoire, critique, théorie; Blanche W Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Peter Brooks FBA
Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture
Professor Simon Gikandi FBA
The literatures and cultures of Africa and its Black Diasporas in the Americas and Europe; cultures, histories and institutions of slavery; literary history and comparative literature; global modernism
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
