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
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
Current post
Emeritus Professor of African Language Literature, SOAS, University of London
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Terttu Nevalainen FBA
The history of the English language, particularly of the Early Modern English period; historical sociolinguistics; language variation and change; corpus linguistics; design and compilation of digital text corpora
Professor Eleanor Dickey FBA
Greek and Latin languages and literature; ancient scholarship; ancient bilingualism and second-language learning; politeness and forms of address in Latin and Greek; sociolinguistics of ancient languages
