Professor Diana Knight FBA

The nineteenth-century French novel, especially Balzac and Flaubert; the work of Roland Barthes; narrative and feminist theory
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Current post

Professor of French, University of Nottingham

Past appointments

University of Nottingham Emeritus Professor of French

2016 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Edna Longley FBA

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

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Professor Mary Jacobus FBA

British Romanticism, especially Wordsworth; feminist literary theory and criticism; psychoanalysis; visual culture

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Professor Sharon Monteith FBA

American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the U.S. South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle

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