10-Minute Talks: Crèvecœur: what is an American?

30 Jun 2021 Professor Judith Still FBA

Professor Judith Still FBA discusses the work of Crèvecœur, a farmer and complex thinker of the contradictions of American identity.

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Professor of French and Critical Theory, University of Nottingham

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Elizabeth Boa FBA

German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing

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Professor James Raven FBA

British, western European and colonial literary, bibliographical and cultural studies; reading, library, and book trade history, the history of the novel, comparative global bibliography, Scandinavian studies.

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Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA

Psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary research into gender/sexual difference and sibling/social group relationships using literature to analyse the horizontal axis missing from social theory

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