Professor Roger Pearson FBA
Western Europe France
French Language and Literature
History
Historical Studies of Language and Literature
- 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 Michael Wood FBA
Modern & contemporary literature in English, French, German & Spanish; literary theory; theory of the novel; the history of criticism
Professor Stephanie Newell FBA
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Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli
The literatures, cultures and visual arts of the Caribbean and its diasporas in a global context.
