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 Josephine McDonagh FBA

Josephine McDonagh is the author of several monographs and editor of volumes of essays on a range of interdisciplinary topics, with a focus on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly Britain’s global and imperial relations. Most recently she has interrogated the role of literature in settler colonisation, migration and emigration.

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Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

Twentieth-century literature and intellectual history; contemporary literature and theory; cultural histories of human rights, exile, and migration

Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA (credit Catherine Shakespeare Lane)

Professor Robert Crawford FBA

Scottish literature: T S Eliot; modern & contemporary poetry; creative writing (particularly poetry)

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