Professor Clare Jane Pettitt FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2025
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern languages
Summary
The literature, culture, and politics of the long nineteenth century in a global perspective. Print culture, the history of the material book, emerging digital technologies, and new media forms
Current post
University of Cambridge Grace 2 Professor of English
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Peggy Kamuf FBA
Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous
Professor Derek Attridge FBA
The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.
Professor Aleida Assmann FBA
English and American literature; cultural anthropology; media history of writing and reading; individual, collective and cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust, trauma and the construction of national narratives
