Professor Stefan Collini FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2000
- Subjects
- History, Literature
Summary
Stefan Collini has published extensively on the literary and intellectual history of Britain since 1850. Themes that have been central to his recent work include: cultural criticism; intellectuals; literary critics and public debate. He has also written about the history and purpose of universities and has been a prominent critic of recent UK higher education policy. In addition he is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation (NY), and The Guardian.
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature
2014 -
University of Cambridge Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, University of Cambridge
1994 - 2015
University of Cambridge Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature
1986 - 2014
School for Global studies, University of Sussex Lecturer, Reader in Intellectual History
1974 - 1986
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Jonathan Haslam FBA
History of thought in international relations; history of Soviet foreign policy; contemporary history of Chile; biography (E H Carr); origins of the Second World War.
Professor Rachel Bowlby FBA
Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.
Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty FBA
Modern South Asian culture and history; Postcolonial theory; the problem of Eurocentrism in historical thought; histories of history; climate change and the humanities; planetary histories
