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 Angela McRobbie FBA
Sociology of Culture, Young Women and Mass Media, Feminist Theory, Gender and Popular Culture, British Fashion Industry, Creative Economy, Fashion Start Ups and Micro-enterprises in the Urban Environment
Professor W J T Mitchell FBA
The study of images, media & visual culture in relation to politics in both traditional & modern societies.
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.
