Professor William Ryan FBA

Elected 2000

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year of birth: 1937
Year of death: 2023
Year elected: 2000
Sections: Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

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Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, School of Advanced Study, The Warburg Institute, University of London

Past appointments

The Warburg Institute, University of London Academic Librarian

1976 - 2002

School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University of London Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature

1967 - 1976

Publications

The bathhouse at midnight. A historical survey of magic and divination in Russia (1999)

The Penguin Russian Dictionary (1995)

Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099-1185 Hakluyt Society, 2nd Series (1988)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor James Raven FBA

British, western European and colonial literary, bibliographical and cultural studies; reading, library, and book trade history, the history of the novel, comparative global bibliography, Scandinavian studies.

Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA

History; historical studies of language and literature; English language and literature

Professor Kathy Hannah Eden FBA

History of rhetoric, especially ancient and early modern; its impact on the theory and practice of literature in Europe between the late 14th and 16th centuries

Professor William Ryan FBA

Last post

Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, School of Advanced Study, The Warburg Institute, University of London

Past appointments

The Warburg Institute, University of London Academic Librarian

1976 - 2002

School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University of London Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature

1967 - 1976

Publications

The bathhouse at midnight. A historical survey of magic and divination in Russia (1999)

The Penguin Russian Dictionary (1995)

Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099-1185 Hakluyt Society, 2nd Series (1988)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor James Raven FBA

Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA

Professor Kathy Hannah Eden FBA

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Professor William Ryan FBA

Last post

Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, School of Advanced Study, The Warburg Institute, University of London

Past appointments

The Warburg Institute, University of London Academic Librarian

1976 - 2002

School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University of London Lecturer in Russian Language and Literature

1967 - 1976

Publications

The bathhouse at midnight. A historical survey of magic and divination in Russia (1999)

The Penguin Russian Dictionary (1995)

Jerusalem Pilgrimage 1099-1185 Hakluyt Society, 2nd Series (1988)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor James Raven FBA

Professor Dame Marina Warner FBA

Professor Kathy Hannah Eden FBA

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