Professor Clair Wills FBA

20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2020
Subjects
History, Literature

Current post

University of Cambridge King Edward VII Professor of English Literature

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ute Frevert FBA

Modern European history; history of emotions; Social, gender and political history

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Professor Maria Cristina Fumagalli

The literatures, cultures and visual arts of the Caribbean and its diasporas in a global context.

Maria Fumagalli FBA

Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr FBA

African and African American literary criticism; African American intellectual and cultural history; genetics and genealogy; producing documentary films about the African Diaspora and genetics and genealogy

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