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The Revd Professor Michael Screech FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1981
Year of birth
1926
Year of death
2018
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830
Website
http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/people.php?personid=233

Current post

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford and Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford

Past appointments

All Souls College University of Oxford Fellow and Chaplain, All Souls College, Oxford and Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford

2002 -

All Souls College University of Oxford Fellow and Chaplain, All Souls College, Oxford and Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford

2002 -

All Souls College University of Oxford Fellow and Chaplain, All Souls College, Oxford and Extraordinary Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford 1993-2001

1993 -

All Souls College University of Oxford Senior Research Fellow

1984 - 2001

University College London Reader, Professor, Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature

1961 - 1984

University of Birmingham Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer

1951 - 1961

Publications

Rabelais 1979

Erasmus: ecstasy and the praise of folly 1980

Montaigne and melancholy 1983

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Marie-Luce Demonet FBA

Renaissance French literature; Early modern linguistic theory, semiotics; Early modern fictionality, Arts of discourse, Mind theory (possible worlds, counterfactuals); Rhetoric of orality, writing and printing; Digital scholarly editions

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Professor Stephen Greenblatt FBA

Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, history, and culture; cultural mobility and the history of ideas; the future of the humanities

Stephen Greenblatt FBA

Professor John Barrell FBA

English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography

Photo of John Barrell FBA, holding his hat with a blue sky with light clouds behind him, indicating the location of the photo is at high altitude.

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