Professor Nigel Leask FBA
Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2012
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ingrid De Smet FBA
Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual culture, especially in France and the Low Countries; sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French literature; Neo-Latin Studies; the Republic of Letters; the Classical tradition
Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA
Twentieth-century literature and intellectual history; contemporary literature and theory; cultural histories of human rights, exile, and migration
Professor William Rowe FBA
Modern & contemporary poetry in Britain, America & Latin America; modern Latin America literature & cultural history, expeciallly Peru
