Terence Christopher Cave CBE FBA (born 1 December 1938) is a British literary scholar.
Terence Cave studied for his Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
In 1985 he was elected to become Drapers Professor of French at Cambridge, but remained at Oxford instead of taking the chair.
[2] Among Cave's principal works are The Cornucopian Text (1979), Recognitions: A Study in Poetics (1988), and (edited with Sarah Kay and Malcolm Bowie) A Short History of French Literature (2003).
Cave has held positions as a guest professor at national and international universities.