Frederick Charles Inglis (born 17 May 1937) is Emeritus Professor of

Cultural Studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

at the

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in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the

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, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the

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, and Visiting Fellow Humanities Research Centre,

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

, Canberra. He was born in

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, County Durham, and was educated at the fee-paying

Oundle School Oundle School is a public school (United Kingdom), public school (English Private schools in the United Kingdom, fee-charging boarding school, boarding and day school) for pupils 11–18 situated in the market town of Oundle in Northamptonshire ...

in Northamptonshire. He graduated from

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and ...

, in 1960 with a degree in English Literature, before studying for his MPhil at

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while employed there as a government research fellow. His two doctorates (PhD, DSc) were awarded by the

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on the basis of published work. Inglis has frequently written for ''The Nation'', the ''

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'' and ''

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'' and contributes regularly to

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Radio. He is a member of the

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and has stood as a Labour Party candidate for the UK Parliament on four occasions. In

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and February 1974 he fought West Derbyshire, going on to contest

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in October 1974 and

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1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

, but he was beaten by the

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on each occasion.

Principal publications

* ''History Man: the Life of R. G. Collingwood'', Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. * ''A Short History of Celebrity'', Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. * ''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.

References

External links

* * , review of ''A Short History of Celebrity'' in ''

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'' 1937 births Living people 21st-century British social scientists Academics of the University of Sheffield Alumni of the University of Southampton Academics of the University of Warwick Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates People educated at Oundle School {{UK-academic-bio-stub