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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English Language and Literature Critical and Cultural Theory - English Language and Literature Literature in relation to other Arts Critical and Cultural Theory - Modern Languages Aesthetics Irish Literature in English

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Professor Robert S C Gordon FBA

The cultural history, cinema, and literature of modern Italy; Holocaust literature (Primo Levi); postwar memory and culture of the Holocaust

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Professor Derek Attridge FBA

The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.

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