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Professor Alison Light FBA

Modern British cultural and literary history; life-writing, feminism, and the ‘I” in history; Englishness and the idea of class in Britain; writing history across the disciplinary boundaries

Elected 2021

Alison Light sat in an armchair with a bookshelf behind her
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2021
Honours
FRSL
Sections
Modern History from 1850

Pembroke College, Oxford Senior Research Fellow in History and English

Department of English, University College London Honorary Professor

School of Literatures and Languages, Edinburgh University Honorary Professor

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