Professor Michael Sheringham FBA

Modern and contemporary French literature and thought: autobiography and life-writing, Surrealism, poetry since Baudelaire, memory and subjectivity, the ordinary
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2010
Year of birth
1948
Year of death
2016
Honours
FBA

Current post

Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Aleida Assmann FBA

English and American literature; cultural anthropology; media history of writing and reading; individual, collective and cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust, trauma and the construction of national narratives

Aleida Assmann FBA

Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA

German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures Western Europe Germany, Austria History Historical Studies of Language and Literature

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Professor Edward J. Hughes FBA

Modern and contemporary French literature; French Algerian literature and culture; the depiction of social and cultural marginality in the modern French novel; sociology and literature; Proust studies

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