Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly#
| Membership Number: | 5073 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/helen-watanabe-okelly |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1999 - present Professor of German Literature, University of Oxford
- 2013 - 2016 Project Leader, Marrying Cultures: Queens Consort and Cultural Transfer (HERA)
- 1989 - 2013 Fellow and Tutor in German, Exeter College Oxford, and Faculty Lecturer in German, University of Oxford
- 1975 - 1989 Lecturer in German, University of Reading
Fields of Scholarship
- German literature and culture
- Cultural history
- Early modern court culture
- Emotions in history
- Religious literature
- Representation of women
Honours and Awards
- 2018/09 - 2019/01 Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Paris
- 2016 Honorary DLitt, National University of Ireland
- 2012 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2004 - 2005 Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
- 1997 - 1999 British Academy Reader in the Humanities
- 1986 - 1987 Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
