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 Esther Leslie FBA

Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium

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Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures Western Europe Germany, Austria History Historical Studies of Language and Literature

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Professor Clair Wills FBA

20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration

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