Professor Nigel Leask FBA
Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor James Williams FBA
James Williams' research interests include francophone postcolonial studies, particularly West and Central African cinema; post-war French and European film; modern and contemporary French literature; gender and sexuality; migration and diasporic cultures; Holocaust cinema; the archives.
Professor Victoria Kahn FBA
Renaissance literature, rhetoric and poetics; early modern political theory; history of literary theory
