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

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Professor Neil Kenny FBA

Sixteenth & 17th-century literature & thought in Europe, especially France; the role played by various dimensions of language (eg concept-formation; tense-aspect) in the shaping of knowledge & belief.

Neil Kenny FBA

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 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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