Professor Melveena McKendrick FBA

Iberian and Latin American Languages and Literatures
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1999
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Current post

Emerita Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature, Society and Culture, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emerita Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature, Society and Culture, University of Cambridge

2008 -

University of Cambridge Emerita Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature, Society and Culture, University of Cambridge

2008 -

University of Cambridge Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education)

2003 - 2008

University of Cambridge Lecturer, Reader, Professor in Spanish

1980 - 2008

Girton College University of Cambridge Research Fellow, Fellow, Lecturer in Spanish, Senior Tutor, Director of Studies

1967 - 1980

Publications

Identities in Crisis: Essays on Gender and Women in the 'Comedia\" 2002

Women and society in the Spanish drama of the golden age 1974

Theatre in Spain 1490-1700 1989

Playing the king. Lope de Vega and the limits of conformity 2000

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Thomas Keymer FBA

British and Irish Literature, 1660-1820; narrative and the novel; history of the book; literature, politics and law; the theory and practice of textual editing

Thomas Keymer FBA

Professor Alison Shell FBA

Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.

Alison Shell FBA

Professor Thomas Corns FBA

The historically-informed study of seventeenth-century English literature; scholarly editing of seventeenth-century texts; stylistic criticism

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