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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
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017
Honours
FBA FRSE FEA
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830
Website
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/academicstaff/roe/

10-Minute Talks: The death of John Keats and his early reputation

24 Feb 2021 Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

Professor Nicholas Roe FBA discusses English Romantic poet John Keats and his reputation.

Current post

Professor of English Literature, University of St Andrews

Past appointments

University of St Andrews Professor of English Literature

1970 -

Queen's University of Belfast Lecturer in English

1970 -

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Henry Woudhuysen FBA

English literature of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, especially Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, and Samuel Johnson; post-medieval palaeography; bibliography and the history of the book

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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 Isabel Torres FBA

Early modern Spanish literature and culture: especially the re-appraisal of Renaissance and Baroque poetry/poetics; lyric theories /practice; legacy / reception of the Classics; Cervantes; Golden Age theatre

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