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 Peggy Kamuf FBA

Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous

Peggy Kamuf FBA

Professor Jo Labanyi FBA

History Other Regions or Languages Spanish Literature Cultural Studies - Modern Languages Film and Media Studies Southern Europe Spain Latin America

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Professor Diana Knight FBA

The nineteenth-century French novel, especially Balzac and Flaubert; the work of Roland Barthes; narrative and feminist theory

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