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 Robin Milner-Gulland FBA

Russia - modern literature (particularly 20th c. poetry); medieval and modern Russian culture, language, history, art and architecture; Byzantine culture; aspects of Sussex archaeology

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Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA

French, postcolonial and comparative studies. North Africa, especially colonial Algeria; literary theory; translation; the political work of literary texts and films, as understood by writers, censors, critics, and teachers

Nicholas Harrison FBA

Professor Jo Labanyi FBA

History Other Regions or Languages Spanish Literature Cultural Studies - Modern Languages Film and Media Studies Southern Europe Spain Latin America

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