Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern languages
Summary
HELEN WATANABE-O'KELLY studied German and Spanish at University College Cork, where she took her BA and MA. She did her PhD in German at the University of Basel. She first came to the UK in 1974 as Lecturer in German at the University of Reading and, in 1989, was made Lecturer in German at Oxford University and in 1994 Professor of German Literature. Her main research interests are early modern European court culture, early modern and nineteenth-century German literature, the representation of women and writing by women in German. With colleagues in Germany, Poland and Sweden, she is currently leading a research project funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area): Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and European Identities 1500-1800 (www.marryingcultures.eu).
Current post
Professor of German Literature, University of Oxford
Past appointments
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford Professor of German Literature
2013 -
Publications
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Intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance, specialising in political thought and the reception of ancient philosophy; history of humanism and the Latin literature of the Renaissance
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German literature and philosophy from 1700 to the present, particularly with reference to Goethe. Theological aspects of contemporary politics
Professor John Barrell FBA
English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography
