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 Jeremy Robbins FBA

Spanish early modern art, literature, moral and political thought, and mysticism; seventeenth-century court culture, particularly Calderón de la Barca and Velázquez; Baltasar Gracián and the Jesuits

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Professor Jeremy Lawrance FBA

The medieval & Renaissance literature & history of Spain from 1200 to 1700, with special interests in literacy, libraries & the history of ideas; humanism; imperialism

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Professor Virginia Cox FBA

Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing

Professor Virginia Cox FBA

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