Professor Peter Boxall FBA
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
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Subjects
- Literature
Current post
Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Josephine McDonagh FBA
Josephine McDonagh is the author of several monographs and editor of volumes of essays on a range of interdisciplinary topics, with a focus on nineteenth-century British literature, particularly Britain’s global and imperial relations. Most recently she has interrogated the role of literature in settler colonisation, migration and emigration.
Professor Clair Wills FBA
20th-century British and Irish cultural history; contemporary writing; the literature and social history of migration
Professor Derek Attridge FBA
The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.
