Francesca Orsini, FBA is an Italian scholar of

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. She is currently

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of Hindi and South Asian Literature at the

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(SOAS),

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. She previously lectured at the

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, 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 The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...

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Personal life

In 1998, Orsini married

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, an English Japanologist. Orsini is an Italian citizen, and has not applied for either UK citizenship or

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Honours

In July 2017, Orsini was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's

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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