Professor Angela McRobbie FBA

Sociology of Culture, Young Women and Mass Media, Feminist Theory, Gender and Popular Culture, British Fashion Industry, Creative Economy, Fashion Start Ups and Micro-enterprises in the Urban Environment
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017

Current post

Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths University of London

What is cultural studies?

18 Aug 2020 Professor Angela McRobbie FBA

Professor Angela McRobbie explains the origins of cultural studies as an academic discipline.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Christopher Pinney FBA

Commercial print cultures of South Asia (especially chromolithography), visual culture of popular politics and religion; anthropological approaches to photography, history of photography in India; Hindu practice in rural central India

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Professor Patricia Waugh FBA

Modern literary studies and intellectual history, with specific interests in the modern and contemporary novel; literature, science and medicine; cultural theory and modernist aesthetics

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Professor Ato Quayson FBA

African and postcolonial literature; comparative work on tragedy across various literary traditions; disability and its representations; modern diaspora and transnational studies; urban studies

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