Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern languages
Summary
I have a long-standing interest in German modernist writing, shown in my first book, Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (OUP, 1985), in Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2004), and in my Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann (edited, 2002). I addressed a larger theme in The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939 (OUP, 1999). More recently my interests have shifted to the Enlightenment period, which is the centre of my Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine (OUP, 2009), my Lessing and the German Enlightenment (edited 2013 for the Voltaire Foundation), and Goethe: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2016). Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment, a collection of essays edited with Laurence Brockliss, will appear with OUP late in 2016. I am now working on a large general study of the Enlightenment for Penguin Books.
Current post
Taylor Professor of German, University of Oxford
Past appointments
St John's College University of Oxford Official Fellow and Tutor in German, St John's College, Oxford
1989 - 2010
St John's College University of Oxford Official Fellow and Tutor in German
1989 - 2010
St John's College University of Oxford Official Fellow and Tutor in German, St John's College, Oxford
1989 -
Downing College University of Cambridge Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern Languages
1984 - 1989
Lincoln College University of Oxford Fellow in German
1979 - 1984
Lincoln College University of Oxford
1979 - 1984
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Aurora Egido FBA
History and Critique of 16th and 17th centuries of Spanish Literature in its variables subjects, genres and authors, from Garcilaso to Gracián (including Santa Teresa, Cervantes, Góngora and Calderón, among others), with studies and critical editions
Professor Matthew Bell FBA
Matthew Bell's research interests are European literature and thought of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially German; the history of the human sciences up to 1900; and Goethe.
Professor Peter Boxall
The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.
