Professor Mary Jacobus FBA

British Romanticism, especially Wordsworth; feminist literary theory and criticism; psychoanalysis; visual culture
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2009
Subjects
Literature

Current post

University of Cambridge Professor of English (Grace 2) and Director, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH)

Publications

Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint 2016 Princeton UP

Romantic Things: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud Chicago University Press, 2012

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Terence Eagleton FBA

English Language and Literature Critical and Cultural Theory - English Language and Literature Literature in relation to other Arts Critical and Cultural Theory - Modern Languages Aesthetics Irish Literature in English

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Professor Paul Gilroy FBA

African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain

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Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA

The cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature (Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust

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