Professor John Haffenden FBA

Literary biography and criticism, especially 20th century British and American poetry; biographies of John Berryman and William Empson, editions of poetry and prose by Empson.
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Research Professor in English Literature, The University of Sheffield

Past appointments

The University of Sheffield Research Professor in English Literature, University of Sheffield

1994 -

The University of Sheffield Research Professor in English Literature, University of Sheffield

1994 -

Publications

Complete Poems of William Empson 2000

William Empson: Among the Mandarins 2005

William Empson: Against the Christians 2006

Selected Letters of William Empson 2006

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor David Barnett FBA

Theory and practice of political theatre, particularly Bertolt Brecht’s; directing political theatre; theatre history (intersections of institutions, productions and practices); postdramatic theatre; theatricality; Heiner Müller; Fassbinder’s theatre

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Professor Judith Butler FBA

Feminist and queer theory, focusing on gender, sexuality and the psychosocial formation of the subject, moral and social philosophy, literary theory, and 19th and 20th century European philosophy

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Professor Robert Young FBA

Cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, translation, with a particular focus on postcolonial theory

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