Professor Sir Christopher Ricks FBA

English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1975
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Professor of the Humanities, Boston University

Past appointments

Boston University Professor of the Humanities

1986 -

Other Foreign Institutions Professor of the Humanities, Boston University

1986 -

University of Cambridge Professor of English Literature

1975 - 1986

University of Bristol Professor of English

1968 - 1975

Worcester College University of Oxford Fellow

1958 - 1968

Publications

The poems of Tennyson (3 vols) 1987

The force of poetry 1986

T S Eliot and prejudice 1988

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Mary Jacobus FBA

British Romanticism, especially Wordsworth; feminist literary theory and criticism; psychoanalysis; visual culture

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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 Ritchie Robertson FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures Western Europe Germany, Austria History Historical Studies of Language and Literature

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