Professor Daniel Grimley elected as a British Academy Fellow

Professor Daniel Grimley has been made a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the humanities. Founded in 1902, the British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is a Fellowship consisting of over 1,800 world-leading scholars from the UK and overseas.

Professor Grimley's research concerns music, landscape, and cultural geography, especially in the nordic region (Grieg, Sibelius, Carl Nielsen) and England (Elgar, Delius, and Vaughan Williams), as well as environmental humanities, music analysis, modernism and its reactions. He has published four monographs, most recently 'Delius and the Sound of Place' (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and 'Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence' (Reaktion, 2021), and has edited five further volumes.

He was educated at a state comprehensive school in East Kent and is committed to access, outreach, and supporting talented students from the broadest community, and to advocating for the importance of the arts and humanities in the higher education sector and beyond.

Professor Grimley comments: 

It is humbling to have been elected to a fellowship of the British Academy alongside such distinguished colleagues. The arts and humanities are under unprecedented strain, and we need to speak with a collective voice more urgently than ever before. I will support the Academy’s efforts to advocate for all our disciplines and to continue to make the case for the centrality of the arts and humanities across the sector and beyond.