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| Membership Number: | 834 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Director of the Balzan Interdisciplinary Seminar ‘Literature as an Object of Knowledge’, based at St John’s College Research Centre
- 2001 - present Emeritus Professor of French Literature and Emeritus Research Fellow, St John’s College
Fields of Scholarship
- Early modern French literature and thought
- European literature and the history of poetics
- Cognitive approaches to literature
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Balzan Prize for “Literature since 1500”
- 2007 Honorary DLit, University of London
- 2001 Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite
- 1997 Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- 1993 Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Science and Letters, Trondheim
- 1991 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1990 Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Romance Studies of the University of London
- 1990 Member of the Academia Europaea
