Alan Raitt
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Professor Alan Raitt FRSL FBA |
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| Born |
Alan William Raitt, 21 September 1930 |
| Died | 2 September 2006 (aged 75) |
| Awards |
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1971) Fellow of the British Academy (1992) Ordre des Palmes Académiques (1995) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | The King Edward VI School, Morpeth |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Thesis year | 1957 |
| Doctoral advisor | Austin Gill |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | French literature |
| Sub discipline | 19th-century French literature |
| Institutions |
Magdalen College, Oxford Exeter College, Oxford University of Oxford |
Alan William Raitt, FRSL, FBA (21 September 1930 – 2 September 2006) was a British scholar of French literature, specialising in nineteenth-century French literature. From 1992 to 1997, he was Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford.
Raitt was born on 21 September 1930 in Morpeth, Northumberland, England. He was educated at The King Edward VI School, Morpeth, then an all-boys state grammar school. He studied Modern Languages (French and German) at Magdalen College, Oxford, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1951. His undergraduate tutor had been Austin Gill. He remained at Magdalen College to undertake postgraduate research on "Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and the Symbolist movement", completing his Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1957.
From 1953 to 1955, Raitt was a Fellow (by examination) of Magdalen College, Oxford. From 1955 to 1966, he was Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. In 1966, he returned to Magdalen College where had been elected a fellow, and would remain there until his retirement in 1997; that year he was elected Fellow Emeritus. He also held a number of positions at university level in the University of Oxford: he was a Special Lecturer in French Literature from 1976 to 1979, Reader from French Literature from 1979 to 1992, and Professor of French Literature from 1992 to 1997.
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