Elizabeth Boa (b. 1939) is a British scholar of German literature and is Professor Emerita of German at the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public university, public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. The University of Nottingham belongs t ...

. She first joined the University of Nottingham in 1965 and, with the exception of two years at the

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(1994-1996) spent her career there. She was elected as a Fellow of the

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in 2003.

Select publications

*Boa, E. 1987. ''The Sexual Circus: Wedekind's Theatre of Subversion 1987''. Oxford and New York, Blackwell. *Boa, E. 1996. ''Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions''. *Boa, E. and Palfreyman, R. 2000. ''Heimat - a German Dream: Regional Loyalties and National Identity in German Culture 1890-1990 2000''. Oxford University Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boa, Elizabeth Living people British women academics Germanists 1939 births Fellows of the British Academy Academics of the University of Nottingham