Professor Jennifer Richards FBA

Renaissance English literature, history of reading and the voice, rhetoric, scholarly editing and book history, digital humanities, and bees
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

Humanities Research Institute, Newcastle University Joseph Cowen Chair of English Literature and Co-Director

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Professor Susanne Kord FBA

German literature (18th/19th centuries); reception and history of women’s literature; literary anonymity and pseudonyms; cultural history of antisemitism; crime genres (literature and film); genre film and philosophy

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Professor Alison Shell FBA

Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.

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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

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