Dame Gillian Beer FBA

English Language and Literature
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

Darwin's plots: evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and 19th century fiction 1983

Open fields: science in cultural encounter 1996

Virginia Woolf: the common ground 1996

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Professor Charlotte Brunsdon FBA

London in film and television; the British audio-visual landscape; television and cinema as objects of study

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Professor Roderick Beaton FBA

Greek literature, history, and culture from the twelfth century to the present; classical reception in the formation of late medieval and modern Greek identity; the Greek novel since antiquity

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Professor Jonathan Culler FBA

Literary and cultural theory, particularly narratology and the theory of lyric poetry; French literature of the 19th century

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