Dame Gillian Beer FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1991
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Emeritus King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Cambridge King Edward VII Professor of English Literature
1994 - 2002
University of Cambridge Emeritus King Edward VII Professor English Literature, University of Cambridge
1994 -
Clare Hall University of Cambridge President
1994 - 2001
Girton College University of Cambridge Fellow
1965 - 1994
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Rachel Bowlby FBA
Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.
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
Professor Charles Forsdick FBA
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
