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 Simon Gikandi FBA
The literatures and cultures of Africa and its Black Diasporas in the Americas and Europe; cultures, histories and institutions of slavery; literary history and comparative literature; global modernism
Professor Antoine Compagnon FBA
French Renaissance prose; 19th and 20th-century French literature and culture; history of criticism; theory of literature
