Professor Meyer Abrams FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1988
Year of birth
1912
Year of death
2015
Honours
FBA

Current post

Class of 1916 Professor Emeritus of English, Cornell University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ayanna Thompson FBA

Shakespeare, early modern literature, performance studies, and premodern critical race studies

Professor Ayanna Thompson FBA

Professor Colin Burrow FBA

Early Modern English Literature; relationships with classical literature, theory and practice of literary imitation, textual editing, literary history, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.

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Professor John Barrell FBA

English Language and Literature History of a specific country Britain in the 18th & 19th C. History of Art Theory of Painting Cultural Geography

Photo of John Barrell FBA, holding his hat with a blue sky with light clouds behind him, indicating the location of the photo is at high altitude.

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