Professor Sharon Monteith FBA

American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the US South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

Nottingham Trent University Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Cultural History

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English Language and Literature

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British Romanticism, especially Wordsworth; feminist literary theory and criticism; psychoanalysis; visual culture

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Professor Neil Lazarus FBA

Postcolonial literary studies; modernisation, modernity, modernism; critical social theory, sociology of literature; the questions of 'world literature' and comparative literary studies; more broadly, modern literature (1850 to the present)

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