Professor Catriona Seth FBA

French literature (especially novels and poetry) - The long 18th century in France - Cultural history of Enlightenment Europe - Memoirs and autobiography
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017

Current post

Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford; Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David Womersley FBA

English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing

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Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

English Literature, especially of the Renaissance (Nashe, Shakespeare and Spenser); Anglo-Irish literary relations; travel and colonial writing; literature and politics; class; national identity; biography

Professor Andrew Hadfield FBA

Professor Melveena McKendrick FBA

Iberian and Latin American Languages and Literatures

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