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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

All periods of English Literature, particularly Romantic literature and culture; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and John Keats; biography of the Romantics; literature and medicine

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Professor Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA

Early modern German culture; European court culture, especially festivals, of the early modern period; the representation of women in German literature; writing by women in German.

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Professor James Hankins FBA

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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