Francesca Orsini, FBA is an Italian scholar of South Asian literature. She is currently Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She previously lectured at the University of Cambridge, before joining SOAS in 2006. For the 2013/2014 academic year, she was Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Personal life

In 1998, Orsini married Peter Kornicki, an English Japanologist. Orsini is an Italian citizen, and has not applied for either

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or permanent residence.

Honours

In July 2017, Orsini was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Orsini, Francesca Living people Italian literary critics Italian women literary critics Italian literary historians 20th-century Italian historians 21st-century Italian historians 20th-century Italian women writers 21st-century Italian women writers Fellows of the British Academy Academics of the University of Cambridge Academics of SOAS University of London Radcliffe fellows Hindi-language literature Women literary historians Year of birth missing (living people) Italian women historians