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 Simon Shepherd FBA

The cultural history of theatre practices and dramatic forms in Britain, including theories of performance, from the early-modern to the present day; the theatrical avant-gardes of melodrama and modernism

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Professor Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee FBA

Literary cultures of modern empires, and in particular, British empire; Environmental- and energy-humanities; World-literary studies with special focus on the relationship between literature and the modern world-system

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Professor Toril Moi FBA

Feminism and feminist theory, and women writers; literary theory; literature and philosophy; 19th and 20th century European literature; Simone de Beauvoir; Henrik Ibsen; Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell and literary studies

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