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 Paul Gilroy FBA

African American literature and culture; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain

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Professor Richard Dyer FBA

Film & cultural studies; theories of representation & entertainment; lesbian & gay culture; white representation; music & film; Italian cinema; the European crime film

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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.

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