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 Michael Bell FBA
Literary studies from the Enlightenment to modernity; the interrelations of literature and philosophy
Professor Matthew Bell FBA
Matthew Bell's research interests are European literature and thought of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially German; the history of the human sciences up to 1900; and Goethe.
