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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
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website
https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Mary.Jacobus/

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

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Intellectual history and literary criticism

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Spanish and Latin American cinema, television, and visual culture; literature in Spanish from the Renaissance to the present

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Professor Edna Longley FBA

English Language and Literature Irish Literature in English England Ireland Scotland Wales

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