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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Honours
FBA FRSE FEA

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 John Kerrigan FBA

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

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Professor Alison Shell FBA

Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.

Alison Shell FBA

Professor Brian Cummings FBA

Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy

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