Professor Peter France FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1989
- Subjects
- Modern languages
Summary
Peter France studied at Bradford Grammar School, at Magdalem College, Oxford, and in France. He was awarded a Ph.D. for his thesis on Racine's rhetoric. From 1963 to 1980 he taught at the University of Sussex, and from 1980 to 2000 at the University of Edinburgh, where he is now Emeritus Professor of French and Honorary Fellow. He held visiting posts at the University of British Columbia, the Australian National University, the University of Cape Town, and the Sorbonne, and is a past president of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and the British Comparative Literature Association. In recent years he has been mainly active as a historian of translation and a translator. Having studied Russian during National Service he has translated a wide range of Russian poets, including Batyushkov, Baratynsky, Lermontov, Annensky, Blok, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam and in particular Gennady Aygi. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and was for ten years chairman of the Poetry Association of Scotland and the first director of the Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation. He is married to the historian and translator Siân Reynolds.
Current post
Past appointments
University of Edinburgh Professor of French
1980 - 2000
School for Global studies, University of Sussex Lecturer, Reader in French
1963 - 1980
Publications
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19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan
Professor John Barrell FBA
English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography
