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 Roderick Beaton FBA

Greek literature, history, and culture from the twelfth century to the present; classical reception in the formation of late medieval and modern Greek identity; the Greek novel since antiquity

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Professor Andreas Xavier Schönle FBA

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices

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Professor Patrick Wright FBA

'Heritage' and the power of tradition in British culture since 1890; the cultural dimensions of international relations since 1945; place and belonging in relation to globalisation

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