Professor Michael Bell FBA

Literary studies from the Enlightenment to modernity; the interrelations of literature and philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2008
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

Past appointments

University of Warwick Director of Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts

2005 - 2008

Sorbonnes Nouvelle, Paris Fellow of Centre pour Recherches Anglophones

2005 -

University of Warwick Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

1973 - 2008

University of Warwick Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick

1973 - 2008

Other Foreign Institutions University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

1965 - 1970

Publications

D H Lawrence: Language and Being 1992

Literature, Modernism and Myth 1997

Open Secrets: Literature, Education and Authority from J-J Rousseau to J.M. Coetzee 2007

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Daniel Karlin FBA

19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan

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Professor Nigel Leask FBA

Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.

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Professor Toril Moi FBA

Feminism and feminist theory, and women writers; literary theory; literature and philosophy; 19th and 20th century European literature; Simone de Beauvoir; Henrik Ibsen; Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell and literary studies

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