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 Nicholas Harrison FBA

French, postcolonial and comparative studies. North Africa, especially colonial Algeria; literary theory; translation; the political work of literary texts and films, as understood by writers, censors, critics, and teachers

Nicholas Harrison FBA

Professor Neil Lazarus FBA

Postcolonial literary studies; modernisation, modernity, modernism; critical social theory, sociology of literature; the questions of 'world literature' and comparative literary studies; more broadly, modern literature (1850 to the present)

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Professor Roderick Beaton FBA

Greek literature, history, and culture from the twelfth century to the present; classical reception in the formation of late medieval and modern Greek identity; the Greek novel since antiquity

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