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British Germanist
Ritchie Neil Ninian Robertson
FBA (born 1952) is a British academic who was the
Taylor Professor of German Language and Literature between 2010 and 2021. He was educated at
Nairn Academy in the North of Scotland and at
Edinburgh University , where he took two degrees, in English and German.
[1] He has been a Fellow of
Queen's College, Oxford since 2010.
[2] He is a former Germanic Editor of
The Modern Language Review . Professor Robertson co-directs the Oxford Kafka Research Centre with
Carolin Duttlinger and Professor
Katrin Kohl .
Bibliography
Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (Clarendon Press, 1985)
Heine (Peter Halban, 1988; Grove Press, 1988)
A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000 (
Rochester, NY :
Camden House , 2006), editor, with Katrin Kohl
The "Jewish Question" in German Literature, 1749-1939 (Oxford:
OUP , 1999)
The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993 (Oxford World's Classics, 1999)
ISBN
0-19-283910-1 , editor and translator
The Cambridge Companion to
Thomas Mann (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
ISBN
0-521-65370-3 , editor
Kafka : A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2004); illustrated edition titled Kafka: A Brief Insight (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2010)
Mock-Epic Poetry from
Pope to Heine (Oxford: OUP, 2009)
The Enlightenment : The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790 (New York: Harper, 2021)
International National People Other
References