Peter De Bolla#
| Membership Number: | 3816 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/DeBolla/Peter |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - present Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics, University of Cambridge
- 2005 - 2009 Reader in Cultural History and Aesthetics, University of Cambridge
- 2003 - 2005 Senior Lecturer, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
- 1987 - 2003 Lecturer, Director of Studies in English, King’s College, Cambridge
- 1982 - 1987 Assistant, Department of English, University of Geneva
Fields of Scholarship
- Eighteenth century cultural history
- Philosophical Aesthetics
- William Wordsworth
- The history of ideas, especially eighteenth century to present day
- The history of European art, especially eighteenth century to present day
- Digital Humanities
- The Enlightenment
- Literary Theory
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Distinguished international visiting Professor, Australian Research Council
- 2007 - 2010 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
- 2007 - 2010 Arts and Humanities Research Council, co-investigator, Tate Britain
