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 Esther Leslie FBA
Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium
Professor Roderick Beaton FBA
Greek literature, history, and culture from the twelfth century to the present; classical reception in the formation of late medieval and modern Greek identity; the Greek novel since antiquity
Professor Derek Attridge FBA
The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.
