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 Jonathan Culler FBA

Literary and cultural theory, particularly narratology and the theory of lyric poetry; French literature of the 19th century

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Professor Peter Boxall

The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.

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Professor Rachel Bowlby FBA

Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.

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