Angela Leighton

Angela Leighton, FBA (born 23 February 1954) is a British literary scholar and poet, who specialises in Victorian and twentieth-century English literature. Since 2006, she has been a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Previously, from 1979 to 2006, she taught at the University of Hull, rising to be Professor of English.^[1][2][3]

Leighton was born on 23 February 1954 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, to the composer Kenneth Leighton and Lydia Leighton (née Vignapiano).^[1][3] She studied at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1976 and a Master of Letters (MLitt) degree in 1981.^[1]

In 1979, Leighton joined the English Department of the University of Hull.^[1] She was a lecturer from 1979 to 1993, a senior lecturer from 1993 to 1995, Reader in English from 1995 to 1997, and Professor of English from 1997 to 2006.^[1] In 2006, she moved to the University of Cambridge where she is a Senior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1][2][4]

In 2000, Leighton was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[5] She delivered the 2002 Warton Lecture on English Poetry.^[6]

• Leighton, Angela (1984). Shelley and the Sublime: An Interpretation of the Major Poems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521250894.
• Leighton, Angela (1986). Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sussex: Harvester Press. ISBN 978-0710805720.
• Leighton, Angela (1992). Victorian Women Poets: Writing against the Heart. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 978-0813914268.
• Leighton, Angela; Reynolds, Margaret, eds. (1995). Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 978-0631176084.
• Leighton, Angela (2007). On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199290604.
• Leighton, Angela, ed. (2010). Voyages Over Voices: Critical Essays on Anne Stevenson. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1846314841.
• Leighton, Angela (2017). Trinity Poets (edited with Adrian Poole). Carcanet.
• Leighton, Angela (2018). Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
• Leighton, Angela, ed. (2022). Walter de la Mare: Critical Appraisals (edited with Kajita and Nickerson). Liverpool University Press.

• Leighton, Angela (2000). A Cold Spell. Nottingham: Shoestring Press. ISBN 978-1899549405.
• Leighton, Angela (2007). Sea Level. Beeston, Nottingham: Shoestring Press. ISBN 978-1904886648.
• Leighton, Angela (2012). The Messages. Beeston, Nottingham: Shoestring Press. ISBN 978-1907356308.
• Leighton, Angela (2016). Spills. Manchester: Carcanet Press. ISBN 978-1847772251.
• Leighton, Angela (2021). One, Two. Manchester: Carcanet Press.