Professor Paul Gilroy FBA

African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Professor of American and English Literature, King's College London

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Jonathan Cross FBA

History, aesthetics and reception of European music of the 20th and 21st centuries; modernisms; spectral music; music theory and analysis

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Professor Liz James FBA

Byzantine studies but especially art and archaeology; art and text, light and colour; mosaics; also gender; power; place and space; receptions and perceptions of Byzantium.

Liz James FBA

Professor Neil Lazarus FBA

Postcolonial literary studies; modernisation, modernity, modernism; critical social theory, sociology of literature; the questions of 'world literature' and comparative literary studies; more broadly, modern literature (1850 to the present)

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