Professor Elinor Shaffer FBA

Comparative Literature - English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1995
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Current post

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London; Honorary Professor, University College London

Past appointments

University College London Honorary Professor

2014 -

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies University of London Senior Fellow

1997 -

School of Advanced Study, University of London Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research

1997 -

All Souls College University of Oxford Visiting Fellow

1996 -

University of East Anglia Reader in English and Comparative Literature

1977 - 1997

Publications

'Kubla Khan' and the fall of Jerusalem. The mythological school in Biblical criticism and secular literature 1770-1880 1975

Comparative criticism 1979-2002

The reception of British and Irish authors in Europe 2001-

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Josephine McDonagh FBA

Josephine McDonagh is the author of several monographs and editor of volumes of essays on a range of interdisciplinary topics, with a focus on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly Britain’s global and imperial relations. Most recently she has interrogated the role of literature in settler colonisation, migration and emigration.

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Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA

The cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature (Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust

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Professor Simon Gikandi FBA

The literatures and cultures of Africa and its Black Diasporas in the Americas and Europe; cultures, histories and institutions of slavery; literary history and comparative literature; global modernism

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