Professor Clare Jane Pettitt FBA

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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

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Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA

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