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 Esther Leslie FBA

Aesthetics in combination with politics; Marxism and critical theory, especially the work of Walter Benjamin and TW Adorno; the poetics of science and technology; animation; digital culture and the sensorium

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Professor Sally Shuttleworth FBA

Literature, science and culture in the nineteenth century

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Professor Carolin Duttlinger FBA

Carolin Duttlinger's interests are in German literature and thought from the eighteenth century to the present; interdisciplinary modernism; the history of psychology; photography and visual culture; memory and trauma; Weimar journalism; and collective narration.

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