Professor Alastair Fowler FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1974
- Year of birth
- 1930
- Year of death
- 2022
- Subjects
- Literature
Last post
Regius Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and English Literature, University of Edinburgh
Past appointments
University of Virginia Professor of English
1990 - 1997
University of Edinburgh Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature
1972 - 1984
Brasenose College University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in English Literature
1962 - 1971
University of Virginia Professor of English
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Richard McCabe FBA
Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.
Professor Thomas Corns FBA
The historically-informed study of seventeenth-century English literature; scholarly editing of seventeenth-century texts; stylistic criticism
Professor David Womersley FBA
English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing
