Nicholas Roe  Nicholas Hugh Roe, FBA, FRSE (born 14 December 1955) is a scholar of English literature and an academic, specialising in Romantic literature and culture. Since 1996, he has been Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. After completing his undergraduate degrees and doctorate at Trinity College, Oxford, Roe joined St Andrews as a lecturer in English in 1985; he was promoted to Reader in 1993. In 2009, Roe was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In July 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.