Professor Edna Longley FBA

English Language and Literature Irish Literature in English England Ireland Scotland Wales
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Emerita Professor of English, Queen's University Belfast

Past appointments

Queen's University Belfast Emerita Professor of English, Queen's University, Belfast

2002 -

Queen's University Belfast Emerita Professor of English, Queen's University, Belfast

2002 -

Queen's University Belfast Lecturer to Professor, School of English

1963 - 2002

Queen's University Belfast

1963 -

Publications

Louis MacNeice: A Study 1989

The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland 1994

Poetry and Posterity 2000

Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems 2008

Yeats and Modern Poetry 2013

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Charles Forsdick FBA

Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction

Charles Forsdick FBA

Professor Toril Moi FBA

Feminism and feminist theory, and women writers; literary theory; literature and philosophy; 19th and 20th century European literature; Simone de Beauvoir; Henrik Ibsen; Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell and literary studies

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Professor Michael Bell FBA

Literary studies from the Enlightenment to modernity; the interrelations of literature and philosophy

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