Professor Christopher Prendergast FBA

English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1996
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Current post

Formerly Professor of Modern French Literature, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor of Modern French Literature

1997 -

City University, New York Distinguished Professor in French and Comparative Literature, Graduate School

1987 - 1992

King's College University of Cambridge Fellow

1970 -

Publications

The order of Mimesis 1986

Paris and the 19th century 1992

Napoleon and history painting 1997

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee FBA

Literary cultures of modern empires, and in particular, British empire; Environmental- and energy-humanities; World-literary studies with special focus on the relationship between literature and the modern world-system

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Professor Esther Leslie FBA

Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium

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Professor John Barrell FBA

English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography

Photo of John Barrell FBA, holding his hat with a blue sky with light clouds behind him, indicating the location of the photo is at high altitude.

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