Professor Francesca Orsini FBA
Literatures of South Asia; multilingual and located approach to world literature; book history in South Asia
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature, SOAS, University of London
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor David Mosse FBA
Historical anthropology of religion, social-political systems and livelihoods, especially with reference to Indian caste inequality and activism, religious pluralism (Hindu and Christian) and common property resources; the anthropology of knowledge, institutions and international development.
Professor Almut Hintze FBA
The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics
Professor Peter Jackson FBA
The Mongol Empire & its relations with the Catholic West; the Crusades & the Latin East; & the eastern Islamic world in the Middle Ages.
