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 Rachel Bowlby FBA
Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.
Professor Judith Butler FBA
Feminist and queer theory, focusing on gender, sexuality and the psychosocial formation of the subject, moral and social philosophy, literary theory, and 19th and 20th century European philosophy
Professor Simon Shepherd FBA
The cultural history of theatre practices and dramatic forms in Britain, including theories of performance, from the early-modern to the present day; the theatrical avant-gardes of melodrama and modernism
