Fred Inglis

Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands 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 to BBC Radio. He is a member of the Fabian 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.

Forthcoming works

• History Man: the Life of RG Collingwood, Princeton: Princeton University Press, approx April 2009

• A Short History of Celebrity, Princeton: Princeton University Press, approx Autumn 2009

External links

• Fred Inglis - homepage
• 'Celebrity Gods', review of A Short History of Celebrity in The Oxonian Review

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