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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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

Lord Peter Hennessy of Nympsfield FBA

Economic History Social History Political History History of a specific country History of Britain since 1945

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Professor Alvin Jackson FBA

Modern Irish and British history, especially the Irish and Scottish unions; the histories of union states and unionisms.

Alvin Jackson FBA

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