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 Jacqueline Rose FBA

English Language and Literature South Africa African Languages and Literature

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.

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

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