Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA

Women's writing; English language and literature; 19th-century poetry and literature; Victorian literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2003
Subjects
Education, Literature

10-Minute Talks: The life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 Jul 2020 Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA

Professor Isobel Armstrong FBA discusses key stages of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's life and work, from the courtship letters she wrote to her future husband through to the 19th-century social and political issues that fed into her work.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of English, Birkbeck, University of London

Past appointments

Johns Hopkins University Hinckley Professor (2005) and Visiting Professor

2006 - 2009

Birkbeck College, University of London Professor of English

1989 - 2002

Birkbeck College, University of London Emeritus Professor of English (Geoffrey Tillotson Chair of Nineteenth-Century Studies)

1989 - 2002

University of Southampton Professor of English

1979 - 1989

Publications

Victorian Glass Worlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination, 1830-1880

Isobel Armstrong - Published in 2008 by Oxford University Press

The Radical Aesthetic

Isobel Armstrong - Published in 2000 by Wiley Blackwell

Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics

Isobel Armstrong - Published in 1993 by Routledge

The British Academy 10-Minute Talks: The life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 Jul 2020 The British Academy on YouTube

Isobel Armstrong discusses the life and work of Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861).

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Professor Rosalind Clair Gill FBA

Contemporary media; cultural and creative industries and the ‘gig economy’; intimate relationships and embodiment; psychosocial approaches to power, neoliberalism and social inequalities; methodology, epistemology and ethics

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