Professor Brian Cummings FBA
Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Anniversary Professor, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Michael Hunter FBA
Intellectual history of late 17th century Britain, especially the early Royal Society and the 'decline of magic'; editions of Robert Boyle and others; visual culture.
Professor Lorraine Daston FBA
History of science, 16th-19th centuries.: probability and statistics; scientific observation; objectivity; formal theories of rationality
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed FBA
The history of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, 18th and 19th centuries; slavery In North America, 17th-19th centuries; Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Jefferson
