- Fred Inglis
Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of
Cultural Studies at theUniversity of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at theUniversity of Warwick , he has been a member of the School of Social Science at theInstitute for Advanced Study , Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at theNetherlands Institute for Advanced Study , and Visiting Fellow Humanities Research Centre,Australian National University , Canberra.He was born in
Stockton-on-Tees , County Durham. He took his first degree at Cambridge in English Literature, his M Phil at Southampton while a government research fellow there, and his two doctorates were awarded on published work, as being a member of staff at the University of Bristol.Inglis has frequently written for "The Nation", the "
New Statesman " and "The Independent " and contributes regularly toBBC Radio. He is a member of theFabian Society and has stood as a Labour Party candidate for the UK Parliament on four occasions.Principal publications
* "Culture: key concepts in the social sciences", Cambridge and Cambridge MA: Polity Press, 198 pp.2004.
* "People's Witness: the journalist in modern politics", London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, 416pp.
* "The Delicious History of the Holiday", London and New York: Routledge, 2000, 206pp + 23 illustrations.
* "Clifford Geertz: culture, custom and ethics", Cambridge and Cambridge MA: Polity Press, 2000, 206pp.
* "Raymond Williams: the life", London and New York: Routledge, 1995, xx + 332pp.
* "Cultural Studies", Oxford and Cambridge MA: Basil Blackwell, 1993, 270pp.
* "The Cruel Peace: everyday life and the Cold War", New York: Basic Books, 1991, xx + 402pp, London: Aurum Books, 1992.
* "Media Theory", Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1990, 214pp + tables (translated into Japanese and Portuguese 1993; into Croatian 1997; into Finnish 1998).
* "Radical Earnestness: English social theory 1880-1980", Oxford and Cambridge MA: Martin Robertson with Basil Blackwell, 1982, 253pp.
External links
* [http://www.fredinglis.org.uk/ Fred Inglis - homepage]
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