Clair Wills

In 2016, Wills was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy (HonMRIA).^[1][5] In July 2020, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[6]

In 2008, Wills was awarded the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for her book That Neutral Island: A cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War (2007).^[7] In 2018, she was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for her book Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain (2017).^[8]

• Improprieties: politics and sexuality in Northern Irish poetry. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0198112686.
• Reading Paul Muldoon. Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe. 1998. ISBN 978-1852243470.
• That Neutral Island: A cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War. London: Faber. 2007. ISBN 978-0571221059.
• Dublin 1916: the siege of the GPO. London: Profile Books. 2009. ISBN 978-1846680533.
• The Best Are Leaving: emigration and post-war Irish culture. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1107048409.
• Lovers and Strangers: an immigrant history of post-war Britain. London: Allen Lane. 2017. ISBN 978-1846147166.
• Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets. London: Allen Lane. 2024. ISBN 9780241640951.

Academic offices
Preceded by David Trotter	King Edward VII Professor of English Literature University of Cambridge 2019 to present	Incumbent