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 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

Nicholas Harrison FBA

Professor Leslie Hill FBA

French Language and Literature Critical and Cultural Theory - Modern Languages Textual Studies Film and Media History Philosophy

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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

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