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 Martin Butler FBA
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, especially the drama and theatre; Ben Jonson and his circle; the court masque; textual editing
Dr Susan Brigden FBA
The English Renaissance and Reformation; literary coteries; Reformation diplomacy
Professor Regenia Gagnier FBA
Victorian and modern British literature and culture; geopolitics of language and literature migration; world literature and political economy
