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 Elizabeth Boa FBA

German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing

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Professor Ben Highmore FBA

Cultural studies and cultural theory; post-1945 British art and culture; material and domestic history; feelings and everyday life.

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Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA

Women's writing; English language and literature; 19th-century poetry and literature; Victorian literature

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