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Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

All periods of English Literature, particularly Romantic literature and culture; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and John Keats; biography of the Romantics; literature and medicine

Elected 2017

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Honours
FBA FRSE FEA
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830
Website
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/academicstaff/roe/

10-Minute Talks: The death of John Keats and his early reputation

24 Feb 2021 Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

Professor Nicholas Roe FBA discusses English Romantic poet John Keats and his reputation.

Current post

Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews

Past appointments

University of St Andrews Professor of English Literature

1970 -

Queen's University of Belfast Lecturer in English

1970 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Richard McCabe FBA

Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.

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Professor David Womersley FBA

English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing

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Professor Thomas Corns FBA

The historically-informed study of seventeenth-century English literature; scholarly editing of seventeenth-century texts; stylistic criticism

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