Professor John Kerrigan FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Subjects
- Literature
Summary
Brought up in Liverpool, I was educated at St Edward's College, a Christian Brothers grammar school. After Oxford (Keble and Merton), where I thought about making a living as a horn player, I went to Cambridge as a lecturer in English. A Research Readership from the British Academy and a Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust at different times supported my work. My interests range about, though they are at present mostly concentrated in the early modern and contemporary periods. I have given talks in many parts of the world.
Current post
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Nicholas Roe FBA
All periods of English Literature, particularly Romantic literature and culture; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and John Keats; biography of the Romantics; literature and medicine
Professor Jennifer Richards FBA
Renaissance English literature, history of reading and the voice, rhetoric, scholarly editing and book history, digital humanities, and bees
Professor Rachel Bowlby FBA
Literary realism; history and theory of consumer culture; Freud, especially in relation to Greek tragedy and feminist reappraisals; Virginia Woolf; contemporary French philosophy.
