Professor Debra Myhill FBA
Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Sections
- Linguistics and Philology , Education
Current post
University of Exeter Professor Emerita in Language and Literacy Education
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Usha Goswami FBA
Children's cognitive development, particularly the development of language and literacy; cross-language studies of reading and dyslexia; reading development in deaf children and language-impaired children; educational neuroscience of reading and dyslexia
Professor Adam Ledgeway FBA
The comparative history and morphosyntax of the Romance languages; Italian and Romance dialectology; Latin; Italo-Greek; syntactic theory, linguistic change and language contact
Professor Graham Furniss FBA
Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger
