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

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 Colin Burrow FBA

Early Modern English Literature; relationships with classical literature, theory and practice of literary imitation, textual editing, literary history, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.

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Professor Virginia Cox FBA

Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature and culture; history of the reception of classical rhetoric, 13th to 16th centuries; gender history and women’s writing

Professor Virginia Cox FBA

Professor Martin Butler FBA

Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the drama and theatre; Ben Jonson and his circle; the court masque; textual editing

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