Regenia Gagnier

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Regenia Gagnier FBA (b. 24 June 1953) is a scholar of Victorian and modern British literature, the geopolitics of language and literature migration, world literatures and political economy, and Professor of English at the University of Exeter. [1] [2]

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Gagnier was Professor of English at Stanford University from 1982-1996 and Professor of English at the University of Exeter since 1996. [1] She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991. [3] She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Europe in 2014 and as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020. [2] [1] She is also a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford.

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  2. 1 2 "Regenia Gagnier FBA, MAE, FEA, FRSA". Academy of Europe. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
  3. "Regina A. Gagnier". Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2022.