Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies

Cultural studies

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 at the University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

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 in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick

University of Warwick

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, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

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, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study

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, and Visiting Fellow Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University

Australian National University

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, Canberra.

He was born in Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees

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, County Durham. He took his first degree at Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 in English Literature, his M Phil at Southampton

University of Southampton

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 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

New Statesman

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and The Independent

The Independent

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and contributes regularly to BBC

BBC

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 Radio. He is a member of the Fabian Society

Fabian Society

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 and has stood as a Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 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
  The Oxonian Review
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