Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA

Creolisation between Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds; Critical philology, including intellectual lineages of the European Middle Ages; European (post)imperial legacies in comparative frame; memory, trauma, and the politics of pleasure
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

King’s College London Professor of English Literature

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Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak FBA

Development of humanities pedagogy beyond disciplinary outlines to produce a will to social justice; at Columbia University and elementary schools in Dalit India; through feminism, ecology, literary reading, global theory

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Professor Michael Wood FBA

Modern & contemporary literature in English, French, German & Spanish; literary theory; theory of the novel; the history of criticism

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Professor Gabriel Josipovici FBA

Creative Writing - English Language and Literature Contemporary Literature Creative Writing - Modern Languages History of the Book

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