Professor Toril Moi FBA

Feminism and feminist theory, and women writers; literary theory; literature and philosophy; 19th and 20th century European literature; Simone de Beauvoir; Henrik Ibsen; Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell and literary studies
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2016
Subjects
Literature

Current post

James B Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies, and Director, Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature, Duke University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA

French, postcolonial and comparative studies. North Africa, especially colonial Algeria; literary theory; translation; the political work of literary texts and films, as understood by writers, censors, critics, and teachers

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Professor Michael Wood FBA

Modern & contemporary literature in English, French, German & Spanish; literary theory; theory of the novel; the history of criticism

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Professor Daniel Karlin FBA

19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan

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