Professor Saidiya V Hartman FBA
African-American literature, cultural history, photography and ethics, and the intersections of law and literature
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Subjects
- Modern languages
Current post
Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University University Professor
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Simon Gikandi FBA
The literatures and cultures of Africa and its Black Diasporas in the Americas and Europe; cultures, histories and institutions of slavery; literary history and comparative literature; global modernism
Professor Judith Butler FBA
Feminist and queer theory, focusing on gender, sexuality and the psychosocial formation of the subject, moral and social philosophy, literary theory, and 19th and 20th century European philosophy
Professor Aleida Assmann FBA
English and American literature; cultural anthropology; media history of writing and reading; individual, collective and cultural memory, with special emphasis on Holocaust, trauma and the construction of national narratives
