- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
10-Minute Talks: The life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1 Jul 2020 Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA
Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA discusses key stages of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life and work, from the courtship letters she wrote to her future husband through to the 19th-century social and political issues that fed into her work.
Current post
Emeritus Professor of English, Birkbeck, University of London
Past appointments
Johns Hopkins University Hinckley Professor (2005) and Visiting Professor
2006 - 2009
Birkbeck College, University of London Professor of English
1989 - 2002
Birkbeck College, University of London Emeritus Professor of English (Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies)
1989 - 2002
University of Southampton Professor of English
1979 - 1989
Publications
The British Academy 10-Minute Talks: The life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1 Jul 2020 The British Academy on YouTube
Isobel Armstrong discusses the life and work of Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861).