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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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 Sunil Amrith FBA

The history of modern South and Southeast Asia; the history of Asian migration; Asian and global environmental history.

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Professor Angela McRobbie FBA

Sociology of Culture, Young Women and Mass Media, Feminist Theory, Gender and Popular Culture, British Fashion Industry, Creative Economy, Fashion Start Ups and Micro-enterprises in the Urban Environment

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