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 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
Professor Charles Forsdick FBA
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA
German, Dutch and Scandanavian Languages and Literatures Western Europe Germany, Austria History Historical Studies of Language and Literature
