Professor Clair Wills FBA
20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2020
- Subjects
- History, Literature
Current post
University of Cambridge King Edward VII Professor of English Literature
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed FBA
The history of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, 18th and 19th centuries; slavery In North America, 17th-19th centuries; Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Jefferson
Professor Robert Crawford FBA
Scottish literature: T S Eliot; modern & contemporary poetry; creative writing (particularly poetry)
Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr FBA
African and African American literary criticism; African American intellectual and cultural history; genetics and genealogy; producing documentary films about the African Diaspora and genetics and genealogy
