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 Diana Knight FBA
The nineteenth-century French novel, especially Balzac and Flaubert; the work of Roland Barthes; narrative and feminist theory
Professor Andreas Xavier Schönle FBA
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices
Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA
French, postcolonial and comparative studies. North Africa, especially colonial Algeria; literary theory; translation; the political work of literary texts and films, as understood by writers, censors, critics, and teachers
