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

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2003
Subjects: Literature, Modern languages
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830

Current post

Professor Emerita of German, University of Nottingham

Past appointments

University of Nottingham Professor of German

1996 - 2002

University of Nottingham Emeritus Professor of German, University of Nottingham

1996 - 2001

University of Nottingham Professor Emerita of German

1996 -

University of Manchester Professor of German

1994 - 1996

University of Nottingham Lecturer in German

1965 - 1994

Publications

The Sexual Circus: Wedekind's Theatre of Subversion 1987

Kafka: Gender, Class and Race in the Letters and Fictions 1996

Heimat - a German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990 2000

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Andreas Xavier Schönle FBA

Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices

Professor Andrew J. Webber FBA

Modern German and comparative textual and visual culture; film and screen studies, urban studies, cultural theory, gender and sexuality studies, psychoanalytic studies and digital humanities

Professor Peter Boxall

The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.

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