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]
Angela Leighton | |
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| Born | 23 February 1954 Wakefield, Yorkshire, England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | St Hugh's College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literary scholar |
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Early life and education
editLeighton 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
editIn 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
editIn 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
editScholarly works
edit- 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.
- Leighton, Angela (2017). Trinity Poets (edited with Adrian Poole). Carcanet.
- Leighton, Angela (2018). Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
- Leighton, Angela, ed. (2022). Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals (edited with Kajita and Nickerson). Liverpool University Press.
Poems
edit- 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.
- Leighton, Angela (2021). One, Two. Manchester: Carcanet Press.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f "LEIGHTON, Prof. Angela". Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. November 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Prof Angela Leighton, Trinity". Faculty of English. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ a b "Angela Leighton". Tower Poetry. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ "The Fellowship, etc". Trinity College. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 16 February 2017.
- ^ "Professor Angela Leighton". British Academy. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ 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.)