Elected: 2021
Discipline: Language, Literature and History
Professor Faye Hammill
Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow
Faye Hammill is a literary critic, and her research and teaching focus on early to mid-twentieth-century writing. She is particularly interested in themes of mobility, and her current project explores the various meanings of ocean liners in modern literature. She is author or coauthor of six books, including Modernism’s Print Cultures (2016), with Mark Hussey; Magazines, Travel, and Middlebrow Culture (2015), with Michelle Smith; Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History (2010) and Canadian Literature (2007). She is Director of Arts Lab at the University of Glasgow, and has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde, Cardiff and Liverpool.