Faye Hammill FRSE is a professor in the University of Glasgow, specialising in North American and British modern writing in the first half of the twentieth century, what is often called 'middlebrow'.
Moving to Glasgow, Hammill taught English at Strathclyde University for six years, becoming professor in 2011, and part-time Deputy Associate Principal (Research) in 2016.
The previous year she had given a keynote lecture for ACCUTE at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Brock University, Canada).
[2] Hammill won a mid-career Fellowship from the British Academy (2015) on Noël Coward and attitudes to print culture or popularity.
For example, in 2018 at the V&A Museum Ocean Liners Conference;[18] at Nottingham Trent University Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group (2020);[19] at a King's College London 2020 event titled The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Literary Imagination;[20] invited as keynote speaker on 'A business man's dream': Promoting/Narrating the RMS Queen Mary' at the International Postgraduate Port and Maritime Studies Network Belfast conference (2020);[21] and in considering Transatlantic Style: The Ocean Liner and the 'International Set in the second USA Transatlantic Literary Women's series (online 2020).