Ros Ballaster is a Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow in English at Mansfield College.
Early modern Spanish literature and culture: especially the re-appraisal of Renaissance and Baroque poetry/poetics; lyric theories /practice; legacy / reception of the Classics; Cervantes; Golden Age theatre
Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.
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