Professor Helen Small Elected to British Academy Fellowship

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The 2018 election of new Fellows to the British Academy was announced today, and Pembroke Tutorial Fellow in English Professor Helen Small has been included in this year's cohort.  Professor Small has been Jonathan and Julia Aisbitt Fellow in English Literature at Pembroke since 1996, teaching and mentoring many students in the College during that time.  Later this year she will take up the distinguished post of Merton Professor of English Language and Literature here in Oxford.  

Professor Small's research and writing has included the themes of British literature and intellectual history, primarily from 1800 to the present; the literature and philosophy of ageing; and the history and ongoing practice of advocacy for the humanities.  It is for this work that she has been honoured by election to The British Academy, and the College is delighted by this recognition.

The British Academy comprises a community of over 1,400 of the leading minds in the UK who work in the humanities and social sciences. Current Fellows include the classicist Dame Mary Beard, the historian Sir Simon Schama and philosopher Baroness Onora O’Neill, while previous Fellows include Sir Winston Churchill, C.S Lewis, Seamus Heaney and Beatrice Webb.  As well as a fellowship, the British Academy is a funding body for research, nationally and internationally, and a forum for debate and engagement.