Congratulations to Professor Elleke Boehmer who 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. 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. She has also published over ten edited or co-edited essay collections, and eight works of fiction—six novels and two short-story collections. Her oeuvre of both critical and creative writing has been recognised by prestigious awards and honours including the Olive Schreiner Prize, 2019; a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship, 2019-21; the ESSE biennial Prize for Literature in English, 2015-16; and Leverhulme and AHRC research awards.
Professor Boehmer commented: "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."
