Professor Elleke Boehmer elected Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy

Professor Elleke Boehmer of the Faculty of English Language and Literature has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy.

Founded in 1969, the Australian Academy of the Humanities ‘promotes excellence in scholarship, provides independent, evidence-based advice to government, and works to ensure the humanities remain central to Australia’s cultural, social and economic wellbeing’.

Elleke Boehmer is Oxford University’s first Professor in World Literature in English, and Executive Director of the Oxford Centre for Life Writing, Wolfson College. She is an internationally recognised colonial, postcolonial and world literature specialist with prominent southern hemisphere interests. She is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, both 2019. Professor Boehmer has published six monographs to date, with the seventh, Southern Imagining: a literary and cultural history of the far southern hemisphere, due to be published with Princeton in late December 2025. 

Professor Boehmer said: "It is a very great honour to me to be elected to the Fellowship of the Australian Humanities Academy. Australia has rich, age-old literary and cultural traditions that I have long admired, studied and taught. I am thrilled beyond belief and hope in my future work to justify the Academy’s trust in me."