Professor Peter Boxall FBA
The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
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
