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 Irina Nikolaeva FBA
General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages
Professor Xinjiang Rong FBA
History of Central Asia; Iranians (Sogodian, Khotantese) in China; cultural exchanges between China and the West from Han to Tang dynasties; Chinese history during the Sui, Tang dynasty and Five Dynasties Period, Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts
Professor Derek Peterson FBA
Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
