Professor Robert Young FBA

Cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, translation, with a particular focus on postcolonial theory
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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.

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Professor Gerald Smith FBA

Russian, Slavonic and Eastern European Languages and Literatures Eastern Europe including Russia Russia

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Professor Michael Bell FBA

Literary studies from the Enlightenment to modernity; the interrelations of literature and philosophy

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