Professor Roger Pearson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
- Subjects
- Literature, Modern languages
Summary
Voltaire and the Enlightenment; Mallarme; nineteenth-century French poetry, with particular reference to the role and function of the poet as lawgiver
Current post
Emeritus Professor of French, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford
Past appointments
Queen's College University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of French, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow
2017 -
University of Oxford University Lecturer (C.U.F.); Fellow and Praelector in French, The Queen's College
1977 -
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Judith Butler FBA
Feminist and queer theory, focusing on gender, sexuality and the psychosocial formation of the subject, moral and social philosophy, literary theory, and 19th and 20th century European philosophy
Professor Derek Attridge FBA
The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.
Professor David Barnett FBA
Theory and practice of political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht’s; directing political theatre; theatre history (intersections of institutions, productions and practices); postdramatic theatre; theatricality; Heiner Müller; Fassbinder’s theatre
