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 Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly FBA
Early modern German culture; European court culture, especially festivals, of the early modern period; the representation of women in German literature; writing by women in German.
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA
Twentieth-century literature and intellectual history; contemporary literature and theory; cultural histories of human rights, exile, and migration
