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
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
Current post
King’s College London Professor of English Literature
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Lúcia Nagib FBA
Film theory and history; world cinema; cinematic realism and cinematic intermediality; new waves and new cinemas; national cinemas, such as Brazilian, Japanese and German cinemas; film practice as research
Professor John Kerrigan FBA
Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats
Professor Simon Gikandi FBA
The literatures and cultures of Africa and its Black Diasporas in the Americas and Europe; cultures, histories and institutions of slavery; literary history and comparative literature; global modernism
