fred inglis
emeritus professor of cultural studies
Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, and Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. He was born in Stockton, 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.
Professor Inglis has frequently written for the Nation, the New Statesman and the Independent and contributes regularly to BBC Radio.
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recent papers
Journalism, Democracy, and American Popular Sentiment
Willard Thorp Lecture, University of Princeton, April 2006.
Virtue and Laughter
University of Columbia, 3 May 2006.
University of Warwick, 29 October 2005.
Culture and Sentiment
Atlantic Coast Opportunities Agency, Government of Canada Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia: Celebrating Innovative Communities, 17-18 November 2005.
Art, Politics and the Force of Painting
University of Columbia, 4 May 2006.
Updated January 2008