Professor Patricia Waugh FBA
Modern literary studies and intellectual history, with specific interests in the modern and contemporary novel; literature, science and medicine; cultural theory and modernist aesthetics
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2016
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Professor of English, Durham University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Ato Quayson FBA
African and postcolonial literature; comparative work on tragedy across various literary traditions; disability and its representations; modern diaspora and transnational studies; urban studies
Professor Robert Young FBA
Cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, translation, with a particular focus on postcolonial theory
Professor Peter Boxall
The history of the novel; the relation between aesthetics and politics in modern and contemporary literature; modernism and its legacies; theories of fictionality and artificial life.
