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

Science chapter from Keywords in Education
Bonus chapter from Culture: key concepts in the social sciences, Cambridge and Cambridge MA: Polity Press (2009).

Emotion chapter from Keywords in Education
Bonus chapter from Culture: key concepts in the social sciences, Cambridge and Cambridge MA: Polity Press (2009).

Method and Morality: how to keep the human in the human sciences
University of Warwick, 14 May 2005.

The Beautiful and Damned: cultural theory, celebrity and the invention of the Cote d'Azur

Updated March 2009