Professor James Higgins FBA

Iberian and Latin American Languages and Literatures
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1999
Year of birth
1939
Year of death
2021
Subjects
Literature, Modern languages

Last post

Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Liverpool

Past appointments

University of Liverpool Emeritus Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Liverpool

2004 -

University of Liverpool Head of Department of Hispanic Studies

1988 - 1997

University of Liverpool Professor of Latin American Literature

1988 - 2004

Publications

Lima. A cultural and literary history 2005

Historia de la literatura peruana 2006

César Vallejo en su poesia 1989

Hitos de la poesia peruana 1993

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Western Europe France French Language and Literature History Historical Studies of Language and Literature

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Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats

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Professor Elizabeth Boa FBA

German literature and culture from the 18th century to the present day; modernist literature, especially Kafka and Thomas Mann; feminist theory and contemporary women's writing

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