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 Mary Jacobus FBA

British Romanticism, especially Wordsworth; feminist literary theory and criticism; psychoanalysis; visual culture

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Professor Susan Harrow FBA

French literature and culture from the later nineteenth century to the present; modernism(s) and the avant-garde; textual/visual studies; modern French poetry, especially Apollinaire; Zola and Naturalism studies; comparative epistolarity studies

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Professor Michael Wood FBA

Modern & contemporary literature in English, French, German & Spanish; literary theory; theory of the novel; the history of criticism

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