Professor Derick Thomson FBA
English Language and Literature
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1992
- Year of birth
- 1921
- Year of death
- 2012
- Honours
- FBA, FRSE
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Celtic, University of Glasgow
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Stephanie Newell FBA
Stephanie Newell FBA's research focuses on the cultural histories of printing and reading in Ghana and Nigeria, including spaces of creativity and resistance in colonial-era newspapers.
Professor Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee FBA
Literary cultures of modern empires, and in particular, British empire; Environmental- and energy-humanities; World-literary studies with special focus on the relationship between literature and the modern world-system
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
