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 Paul Julian Smith FBA
Spanish and Latin American cinema, television, and visual culture; literature in Spanish from the Renaissance to the present
Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri FBA
Thought and literature of the European Renaissance; Shakespeare and Early Modern English literature; Rabindranath Tagore; textual studies; translation and translation studies; digital humanities
