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 John Kerrigan FBA

Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats

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Professor Charles Forsdick FBA

Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction

Charles Forsdick FBA

Professor Andrew J. Webber FBA

Modern German and comparative textual and visual culture; film and screen studies, urban studies, cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalytic studies and digital humanities

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