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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 Ritchie Robertson FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures Western Europe Germany, Austria History Historical Studies of Language and Literature

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Professor Peter Brooks FBA

Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture

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Professor Esther Leslie FBA

Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium

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