Professor Brian Cummings elected Fellow of British Academy

Posted on 26 July 2016

Professor Brian Cummings is among 42 academics elected as Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contribution to research.

Brian Cummings

Fellowship awards spanned the breadth of the humanities and social sciences, including law, linguistics, economics and history.

Professor Cummings, from the Department of English and Related Literature, said: "It is an honour to be recognised by the Academy in this way. I hope it will be an opportunity to reaffirm the centrality of European humanism and at the same time to address the critical questions that the humanities can ask about culture and society."

Professor Cummings has written widely on sixteenth-century religion and literature, including an edition of The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662. His book The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace has had significant influence on scholarly thinking about the poetics of religion. He is currently co-directing the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) project ‘Remembering the Reformation,’ as well as writing on the Renaissance humanist Erasmus.

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