Angela Leighton

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Angela Leighton

FBA
Born (1954-02-23) 23 February 1954 (age 67)
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Academic background
Alma materSt Hugh's College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineLiterary scholar
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Angela Leighton, FBA (born 23 February 1954) is a British literary scholar and poet, who specialises in Victorian and twentieth-century English literature. Since 2006, she has been a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Previously, from 1979 to 2006, she taught at the University of Hull, rising to be Professor of English.[1][2][3]

Early life and education[]

Leighton was born on 23 February 1954 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, to the composer Kenneth Leighton and Lydia Leighton (née Vignapiano).[1][3] She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1976 and a Master of Letters (MLitt) degree in 1981.[1]

Academic career[]

In 1979, Leighton joined the English Department of the University of Hull.[1] She was a lecturer from 1979 to 1993, a senior lecturer from 1993 to 1995, Reader in English from 1995 to 1997, and Professor of English from 1997 to 2006.[1] In 2006, she moved to the University of Cambridge where she is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.[1][2][4]

Honours[]

In 2000, Leighton was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5] She delivered the 2002 Warton Lecture on English Poetry.[6]

Selected works[]

Scholarly works[]

  • Leighton, Angela (1984). Shelley and the Sublime: An Interpretation of the Major Poems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521250894.
  • Leighton, Angela (1986). Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sussex: Harvester Press. ISBN 978-0710805720.
  • Leighton, Angela (1992). Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0813914268.
  • Leighton, Angela; Reynolds, Margaret, eds. (1995). Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631176084.
  • Leighton, Angela (2007). On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199290604.
  • Leighton, Angela, ed. (2010). Voyages Over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1846314841.

Poems[]

  • Leighton, Angela (2000). A Cold Spell. Nottingham: Shoestring Press. ISBN 978-1899549405.
  • Leighton, Angela (2007). Sea Level. Beeston, Nottingham: Shoestring Press. ISBN 978-1904886648.
  • Leighton, Angela (2012). The Messages. Beeston, Nottingham: Shoestring Press. ISBN 978-1907356308.
  • Leighton, Angela (2016). Spills. Manchester: Carcanet Press. ISBN 978-1847772251.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "LEIGHTON, Prof. Angela". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Prof Angela Leighton, Trinity". Faculty of English. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Angela Leighton". Tower Poetry. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  4. ^ "The Fellowship, etc". Trinity College. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Professor Angela Leighton". British Academy. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  6. ^ Leighton, Angela (2003). "Elegies of Form in Bishop, Plath, Stevenson" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 121: 257–275. (See Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Stevenson.)
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