Professor Nicholas Harrison FBA
French, postcolonial and comparative studies. North Africa, especially colonial Algeria; literary theory; translation; the political work of literary texts and films, as understood by writers, censors, critics, and teachers
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
Current post
King’s College London Professor of French and Postcolonial Studies
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Peter Boxall
The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.
Professor Charles Forsdick FBA
Francophone postcolonial studies, particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction
Professor Michael Bell FBA
Literary studies from the Enlightenment to modernity; the interrelations of literature and philosophy
