Professor Patricia Waugh FBA
Modern literary studies and intellectual history, with specific interests in the modern and contemporary novel; literature, science and medicine; cultural theory and modernist aesthetics
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Professor of English, Durham University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Kirsty Hooper FBA
Kirsty Hooper's research interests are Spanish, Anglo-Spanish, and Galician cultural history since 1800; the global nineteenth century; minority languages and cultures; genealogies; and the histories and legacies of Hispanic communities in the United Kingdom, especially London and Liverpool.
Professor Peter Boxall
The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.
Professor Paul Gilroy FBA
African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain
