Professor Angela McRobbie FBA

Sociology of Culture, Young Women and Mass Media, Feminist Theory, Gender and Popular Culture, British Fashion Industry, Creative Economy, Fashion Start Ups and Micro-enterprises in the Urban Environment
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017

Current post

Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths University of London

What is cultural studies?

18 Aug 2020 Professor Angela McRobbie FBA

Professor Angela McRobbie explains the origins of cultural studies as an academic discipline.

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Professor Tamar Garb FBA

Art, gender and sexuality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France; race and visual representation in the modern period; contemporary art and politics and photographic/filmic practices in of and from Southern Africa

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Professor John Kerrigan FBA

Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats

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Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA

Creolisation between Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds; Critical philology, including intellectual lineages of the European Middle Ages; European (post)imperial legacies in comparative frame; memory, trauma, and the politics of pleasure

Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA

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