Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA

French, postcolonial and comparative studies. North Africa, especially colonial Algeria; literary theory; translation; the political work of literary texts and films, as understood by writers, censors, critics, and teachers

Elected 2023

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2023
Sections: Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-nicholas-harrison

Current post

King’s College London Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Daniel Karlin FBA

19th and 20th-century British and American literature (Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling); the work of Marcel Proust; poetry and popular song, especially the work of Bob Dylan

Professor W J T Mitchell FBA

The study of images, media & visual culture in relation to politics in both traditional & modern societies.

Professor John Kerrigan FBA

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

Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA

Current post

King’s College London Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Daniel Karlin FBA

Professor W J T Mitchell FBA

Professor John Kerrigan FBA

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Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA

Current post

King’s College London Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Daniel Karlin FBA

Professor W J T Mitchell FBA

Professor John Kerrigan FBA

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