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 Edward J. Hughes FBA
Modern and contemporary French literature; French Algerian literature and culture; the depiction of social and cultural marginality in the modern French novel; sociology and literature; Proust studies
Professor Charles Forsdick FBA
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
Professor Stephanie Newell FBA
Stephanie Newell FBA's research focuses on the cultural histories of printing and reading in Ghana and Nigeria, including spaces of creativity and resistance in colonial-era newspapers.
