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 John Mack FBA
The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment
Professor Samuel Lieu FBA
History of religions, especially of Manichaeism and Christianity, in Central Asia and China; history of Late Roman and Early Byzantine Near East; history of the Silk Road
Mr Michael C A Macdonald FBA
Languages, scripts, inscriptions, and rock art in ancient Arabia and its environs; ancient literacy and its uses; the history of ancient Arabian cultures and of the ancient Near Eastern nomads
