Professor Peter Brooks FBA
Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2010
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Yale University Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature
Princeton University Andrew W Mellon Foundation Scholar in the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Andreas Xavier Schönle FBA
Eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture; the design, organization, and meanings of time and space in Russia; the Europeanization of the Russian elite and its transnational practices
Professor Steven Connor FBA
The relations between literature, technology and science and the cultural phenomenology of material life
Professor Rachel Bowlby FBA
Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.
