British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Elizabeth Boa

Emeritus Professor of German, University of Nottingham

Year Elected: 2003

One of the most respected Germanists of her generation, she is a scholar of modern German literature and has written in particular on Wedekind and Kafka, but also on politico-cultural issues - e.g. editing volumes on women in post-unification Germany and, most recently, on 'Heimat'.