Francesca Orsini

 ( Living People ) 

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 lecturer 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.

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Personal life In 1998, Orsini married Peter Kornicki, an English Japanologist.'KORNICKI, Prof. Peter Francis', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 9 Sept 2017 Orsini is an Italian citizen, and has not applied for either UK citizenship or permanent residence.

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Honours In July 2017, Orsini was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

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Selected works

• Orsini Francesca (2025). 9780195650846, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780195650846
• (2025). 9780195665017, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195665017
• (2025). 9780521856782, Cambridge University Press. . ISBN 9780521856782
• Francesca Orsini (2025). 9788178242491, Permanent Black. . ISBN 9788178242491
• Francesca Orsini (2025). 9780199088805, OUP India. . ISBN 9780199088805
• Francesca Orsini (2025). 9788125038290, Orient BlackSwan. . ISBN 9788125038290
• (2025). 9780199450664, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780199450664
• (2025). 9781783741021, Open Book Publishers. . ISBN 9781783741021

Categories: 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, Italian Women Historians

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