Professor Ato Quayson, Professor of English at New York University (NYU) and a Senior Fellow of International Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in the Modern Languages, Literature and other Media from 1830 section. Corresponding Fellow is the highest honor that the British Academy can bestow on a scholar of international repute not resident in the UK.  The list of Corresponding Fellows stretching from 1904 has included illustrious names such as Professors Claude Levi-Strauss, Noam Chomsky, Joseph Stiglitz, Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum, Kofi Agawu and Mahmood Mamdani, among many other scholars.

Click the following link for more information on Professor Quayson's election and The British Academy:

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/ato-quayson-FBA

Fellows and staff of IIAS congratulates Professor Quayson for this well-deserved achievement.