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 Peter Boxall
The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.
Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA
The cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature (Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust
Professor David Barnett FBA
Theory and practice of political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht’s; directing political theatre; theatre history (intersections of institutions, productions and practices); postdramatic theatre; theatricality; Heiner Müller; Fassbinder’s theatre
