Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, history, and culture; cultural mobility and the history of ideas; the future of the humanities
Elected 2019
Italian language and literature; manuscript studies; historical studies of language and literature; medieval history; historical linguistics; southern Europe, Italy.
German literature and philosophy from 1700 to the present, particularly with reference to Goethe. Theological aspects of contemporary politics
English literature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, especially Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, and Samuel Johnson; post-medieval palaeography; bibliography and the history of the book