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

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Professor Edna Longley FBA

English Language and Literature Irish Literature in English England Ireland Scotland Wales

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Professor Emma Wilson FBA

Modern and contemporary French cinema; gender and sexuality; the visual arts; writing by women; contemporary Italian cinema

Professor Emma Wilson

Professor Kirsty Hooper FBA

Kirsty Hooper's research interests are Spanish, Anglo-Spanish, and Galician cultural history since 1800; the global nineteenth century; minority languages and cultures; genealogies; and the histories and legacies of Hispanic communities in the United Kingdom, especially London and Liverpool.

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