Professor Christopher Prendergast FBA
- 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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Nigel Leask FBA
Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.
Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA
Psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary research into gender/sexual difference and sibling/social group relationships using literature to analyse the horizontal axis missing from social theory
Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA
Creolisation between Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds; Critical philology, including intellectual lineages of the European Middle Ages; European (post)imperial legacies in comparative frame; memory, trauma, and the politics of pleasure
