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

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in the North of Scotland and at

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, where he took two degrees, in English and German. He has been a Fellow of

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since 2010."Ritchie Robertson"
Mod-langs.ox..ac.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2018. He is a former Germanic Editor of ''

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''. Professor Robertson co-directs the Oxford Kafka Research Centre with

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and Professor Katrin Kohl.

Bibliography

*''Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature'' (Clarendon Press, 1985) *''

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'' (Peter Halban, 1988; Grove Press, 1988) *''A History of Austrian Literature 1918-2000'' (

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: Camden House, 2006), editor, with Katrin Kohl *''The "Jewish Question" in German Literature, 1749-1939'' (Oxford:

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, 1999) *''The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993'' (Oxford World's Classics, 1999) , editor and translator *''The Cambridge Companion to

Thomas Mann Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novell ...

'' (Cambridge University Press, 2002). , editor *''

Kafka Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of real ...

: 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

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to Heine'' (Oxford: OUP, 2009) *''The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790'' (New York: Harper, 2021)

References

Living people 1952 births British Germanists Fellows of St John's College, Oxford Fellows of the Queen's College, Oxford Taylor Professors of the German Language and Literature Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-academic-bio-stub