Professor Edgar Yates FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures; History; Viennese Theatre; History in the 19th and 20th Centuries; Western Europe; Austria; Germany; France
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2002
Year of birth
1938
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Last post

Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

Past appointments

University of Exeter Professor of German

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Exeter Emeritus Professor of German, University of Exeter

1972 - 2001

University of Durham Lecturer in German

1963 - 1972

Publications

Bin Dichter nur der Posse: Johann Nepomuk Nestroy. Versuch einer Biographie 2012

Nestroy, Hist.-krit. Ausg. 43 vols in 57, 1977-2010

Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal and the Austrian theatre 1992

Theatre in Vienna: a critical history 1776-1995 1996

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Elizabeth Boa FBA

German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing

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Professor Richard Gray FBA

American Literature

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Professor Steven Connor FBA

The relations between literature, technology and science and the cultural phenomenology of material life

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