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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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert Young FBA

Cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, translation, with a particular focus on postcolonial theory

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Professor David Barnett FBA

Theory and practice of political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht’s; directing political theatre; theatre history (intersections of institutions, productions and practices); postdramatic theatre; theatricality; Heiner Müller; Fassbinder’s theatre

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Professor Stephanie Newell FBA

Stephanie Newell FBA's research focuses on the cultural histories of printing and reading in Ghana and Nigeria, including spaces of creativity and resistance in colonial-era newspapers.

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