Stuart Sim is a literary critic, social critic and

critical theorist Critical theory is a social, historical, and political school of thought and philosophical perspective which centers on analyzing and challenging systemic power relations in society, arguing that knowledge, truth, and social structures are fu ...

currently holding place as professor of

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world. The English language has developed over more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Frisian languages, Anglo-Frisian d ...

Northumbria University Northumbria University (legally the University of Northumbria at Newcastle) is a Public research university, public research university located in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, North East of England. It has been a university since 199 ...

(School of Arts & Social Sciences). He is known for his researches on

globalization Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, th ...

postmodernism Postmodernism encompasses a variety of artistic, Culture, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break from modernism. They have in common the conviction that it is no longer possible to rely upon previous ways of depicting ...

poststructuralism Post-structuralism is a philosophical movement that questions the objectivity or stability of the various interpretive structures that are posited by structuralism and considers them to be constituted by broader systems of power. Although diffe ...

, postmarxism,

continental philosophy Continental philosophy is a group of philosophies prominent in 20th-century continental Europe that derive from a broadly Kantianism, Kantian tradition.Continental philosophers usually identify such conditions with the transcendental subject or ...

cultural theory 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 rela ...

and

critical theory Critical theory is a social, historical, and political school of thought and philosophical perspective which centers on analyzing and challenging systemic power relations in society, arguing that knowledge, truth, and social structures are ...

. He has taught in the

Open University The Open University (OU) is a Public university, public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment, number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate ...

, North-West Region, and also the

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and is the author, or editor, of 30 books. Sim has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters and His work has been translated into 17 languages. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2002. He received his BA and PhD from

Manchester University The University of Manchester is a public university, public research university in Manchester, England. The main campus is south of Manchester city centre, Manchester City Centre on Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road. The University of Manchester is c ...

.Books by Stuart Sim
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Selected bibliography

* Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History, London: Routledge, 2000. * Fundamentalist World: The New Dark Age of Dogma, Cambridge: Icon Press, 2004. * The Eighteenth-Century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008. * The End of Modernity: What the Financial & Environmental Crisis Is Really Telling Us, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. * Melancholy Experience in Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century: Before Depression 1660–1800, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011 (with Allan Ingram, Clark Lawlor, Richard Terry, John Baker and Leigh Wetherall-Dickson). * Derrida and the End of History, Cambridge: Icon Press, 1999.

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