Professor Peggy Kamuf FBA
Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Subjects
- Modern languages
Current post
University of Southern California Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA
Creolisation between Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds; Critical philology, including intellectual lineages of the European Middle Ages; European (post)imperial legacies in comparative frame; memory, trauma, and the politics of pleasure
Professor Neil Lazarus FBA
Postcolonial literary studies; modernisation, modernity, modernism; critical social theory, sociology of literature; the questions of 'world literature' and comparative literary studies; more broadly, modern literature (1850 to the present)
Professor Emma Wilson FBA
Modern and contemporary French cinema; gender and sexuality; the visual arts; writing by women; contemporary Italian cinema
