Professor Paul Gilroy FBA

African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2014
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Professor of American and English Literature, King's College London

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Ruth Finnegan FBA

Social & Cultural Anthropology, Other Branches

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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.

Peter Boxall FBA

Professor Tamar Garb FBA

Art, gender and sexuality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France; race and visual representation in the modern period; contemporary art and politics and photographic/filmic practices in of and from Southern Africa

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