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 Jeremy Robbins FBA

Spanish early modern art, literature, moral and political thought, and mysticism; seventeenth-century court culture, particularly Calderón de la Barca and Velázquez; Baltasar Gracián and the Jesuits

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Professor David McCallam

Environmental humanities in early modern Europe, particularly in France; the French Revolution; 18th century French literature; translation studies.

David McCallam FBA

Professor Gordon Campbell FBA

Renaissance & seventeenth century English literature, especially John Milton; ancient & modern European literatures; cultural history, especially art, architecture, garden history, legal history & Biblical studies; the contemporary Islamic world

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