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 Stephen Greenblatt FBA
Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, history, and culture; cultural mobility and the history of ideas; the future of the humanities
Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA
Women's writing; English language and literature; 19th-century poetry and literature; Victorian literature
Professor Simon Gikandi FBA
The literatures and cultures of Africa and its Black Diasporas in the Americas and Europe; cultures, histories and institutions of slavery; literary history and comparative literature; global modernism
