Professor John Carey FBA

English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1996
Year of death
2025
Subjects
Literature

Last post

Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Merton Professor of English Literature

1975 - 2001

University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford

1975 -

St John's College University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow

1965 - 1975

Keble College University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow

1960 - 1965

Publications

The violent effigy: a study of Dickens's imagination 1979

John Donne: life, mind and art 1981

The intellectuals and the masses 1992

What Good Are the Arts? 2005

William Golding. The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies. A Life 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert Crawford FBA

Scottish literature: T S Eliot; modern & contemporary poetry; creative writing (particularly poetry)

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Professor Andrew Kahn FBA

18th-century literature and thought in Russia and Europe; comparative Enlightenment historiography; Russian poetry (Pushkin, Mandelstam, Brodsky) and its intellectual, political, and cultural contexts; practice of literary history

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Professor Martin Butler FBA

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the drama and theatre; Ben Jonson and his circle; the court masque; textual editing

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