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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Tina K. Ramnarine FBA

Anthropology of music; global and interdisciplinary perspectives on musical performance; music in colonial histories and postcolonial creativities; arts responses to contemporary global challenges

Tina K. Ramnarine FBA

Professor Aleida Assmann FBA

English and American literature; cultural anthropology; media history of writing and reading; individual, collective and cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust, trauma and the construction of national narratives

Aleida Assmann FBA

Professor Peter France FBA

French Language and Literature

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