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
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Professor Peter Brooks FBA
Comparative literature, mainly French & English; Stendhal, Balzac, Henry James; the novel and its analysis; psychoanalysis and literary study; law and literature; identity in modern culture
Professor Elizabeth Boa FBA
German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing
Professor Peggy Kamuf FBA
Contemporary French philosophy, especially the work of Jacques Derrida. Translation theory and translations of many works from French, by Derrida but also by Hélène Cixous
