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 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
Professor Derek Attridge FBA
The language of literature and literary theory: Renaissance prosodic experiments, English poetic rhythm, James Joyce and J. M. Coetzee, philosophical approaches to literature.
Professor Stephanie Newell FBA
Stephanie Newell FBA's research focuses on the cultural histories of printing and reading in Ghana and Nigeria, including spaces of creativity and resistance in colonial-era newspapers.
