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
- 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 Henry Louis Gates Jr FBA
African and African American literary criticism; African American intellectual and cultural history; genetics and genealogy; producing documentary films about the African Diaspora and genetics and genealogy
Professor Jonathan Culler FBA
Literary and cultural theory, particularly narratology and the theory of lyric poetry; French literature of the 19th century
Professor Roderick Beaton FBA
Greek literature, history, and culture from the twelfth century to the present; classical reception in the formation of late medieval and modern Greek identity; the Greek novel since antiquity
