Terence Cave CBE, is Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His main interest is early modern French literature. He has published several books that have become standard works in the subject. In 2009 he was awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize for his studies of literature after the year 1500. His 2016 monograph Thinking with Literature lays the foundation for a cognition-based literary science.
He has an outstanding reputation as a comparatist. In 1988 he published a monumental study of "recognition" as a motif and structuring principle in literature from Aristotle to our time: Recognitions. A Study in Poetics. In 2011, his book came about Goethe's Nachleben: Mignon's Afterlives. Crossing Cultures from Goethe to the Twenty-First Century.
Cave has spent a lot of time in Norway and generously given of his time to Norwegian researchers and research recruits as a commentator, opponent, consultant and mentor. He has been a central figure for several academic communities at UiO for many years, and several researchers at UiO are deeply grateful to him. He is a member of The Royal Norwegian Academy of Letters.