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 Robert Young FBA
Cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, translation, with a particular focus on postcolonial theory
Professor William Rowe FBA
Modern & contemporary poetry in Britain, America & Latin America; modern Latin America literature & cultural history, expeciallly Peru
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
