Angela Leighton
{{short description|British literary scholar and poet}}
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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.{{cite web|title=LEIGHTON, Prof. Angela|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U24239|website=Who's Who 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=15 February 2017|date=November 2016}}{{cite web|title=Prof Angela Leighton, Trinity|url=https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Angela.Leighton/|website=Faculty of English|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=15 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Angela Leighton|url=http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry/featured-poet-angela-leighton/|website=Tower Poetry|accessdate=15 February 2017}}
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). 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.
Academic career
In 1979, Leighton joined the English Department of the University of Hull. 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. In 2006, she moved to the University of Cambridge where she is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.{{cite web|title=The Fellowship, etc.|url=https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/about/master-fellows/the-fellowship/|website=Trinity College|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=16 February 2017}}
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.{{cite web|title=Professor Angela Leighton|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-angela-leighton|website=British Academy|accessdate=15 February 2017}} She delivered the 2002 Warton Lecture on English Poetry.{{cite journal|author=Leighton, Angela|title=Elegies of Form in Bishop, Plath, Stevenson|journal=Proceedings of the British Academy|year=2003|volume=121|pages=257–275|url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1991/pba121p257.pdf}} (See Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Stevenson.)
Selected works
=Scholarly works=
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=Shelley and the Sublime: An Interpretation of the Major Poems |url=https://archive.org/details/shelleysublimein0000leig |url-access=registration |date=1984 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521250894}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=Elizabeth Barrett Browning |date=1986 |publisher=Harvester Press |location=Sussex |isbn=978-0710805720}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart |date=1992 |publisher=University Press of Virginia |location=Charlottesville |isbn=978-0813914268}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Leighton |editor1-first=Angela |editor2-last=Reynolds |editor2-first=Margaret |title=Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology |url=https://archive.org/details/victorianwomenpo00ange |url-access=registration |date=1995 |publisher=Blackwell |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0631176084}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199290604}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Leighton |editor1-first=Angela |title=Voyages Over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson |date=2010 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |location=Liverpool |isbn=978-1846314841}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=Trinity Poets (edited with Adrian Poole) |date=2017 |publisher=Carcanet}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature |date=2018 |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}}
- {{cite book |editor1-last=Leighton |editor1-first=Angela |title=Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals (edited with Kajita and Nickerson) |date=2022 |publisher=Liverpool University Press}}
=Poems=
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=A Cold Spell |date=2000 |publisher=Shoestring Press |location=Nottingham |isbn=978-1899549405}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=Sea Level |date=2007 |publisher=Shoestring Press |location=Beeston, Nottingham |isbn=978-1904886648}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=The Messages |date=2012 |publisher=Shoestring Press |location=Beeston, Nottingham |isbn=978-1907356308}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=Spills |date=2016 |publisher=Carcanet Press |location=Manchester |isbn=978-1847772251}}
- {{cite book |last1=Leighton |first1=Angela |title=One, Two |date=2021 |publisher=Carcanet Press |location=Manchester}}
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Category:British academics of English literature
Category:Academics of the University of Hull
Category:Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
Category:Fellows of the British Academy