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 Josephine McDonagh FBA

Josephine McDonagh is the author of several monographs and editor of volumes of essays on a range of interdisciplinary topics, with a focus on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly Britain’s global and imperial relations. Most recently she has interrogated the role of literature in settler colonisation, migration and emigration.

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Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA

History; historical studies of language and literature; English language and literature

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Professor Nigel Leask FBA

Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.

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