Derek Attridge
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Derek Attridge FBA (6 May 1945) is a British academic in the field of English literature and the current Professor of English at the University of York; a post he has held since 2003.
Dr. Attridge's new work, The Cambridge History of South African Literature, to be co-edited with Dr. David Atwell of York, will mark the 10th time that Cambridge University Press will be publishing a work by Dr. Attridge.
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Education
Attridge received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Natal University in South Africa before moving to the UK to complete his Master of Arts (MA) and PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Research interests
Attridge undertakes research in South African literature, James Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory and the performance of poetry.
Principal publications
Selected publications
Well-weighed Syllables: Elizabethan Verse in Classical Metres Cambridge University Press, 1974
The Rhythms of English Poetry Longman, 1982
Post-structuralist Joyce (co-edited with Daniel Ferrer) Cambridge University Press, 1984
The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments between Language and Literature (co-edited with Nigel Fabb, Alan Durant, and Colin MacCabe) Manchester University Press and Routledge, 1987
Post-structuralism and the Question of History (co-edited with Geoff Bennington and Robert Young) Cambridge University Press, 1987
Peculiar Language: Literature as Difference from the Renaissance to James Joyce. Cornell University Press and Methuen, 1988; reissued, Routledge, 2004
The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce (edited) Cambridge University Press 1990; second, revised edition, 2004
Acts of Literature, by Jacques Derrida (edited) Routledge, 1992
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction Cambridge University Press, 1995
Writing South Africa: Literature, Apartheid, and Democracy 1970-1995 (co-edited with Rosemary Jolly). Cambridge University Press, 1998
Joyce Effects: On Language, Theory, and History Cambridge University Press, 2000
Semicolonial Joyce (co-edited with Marjorie Howes) Cambridge University Press, 2000
Meter and Meaning: An Introduction to Rhythm in Poetry (with Thomas Carper) Routledge, 2003
J. M.Coetzee and the Ethics of Reading: Literature in the Event University of Chicago Press and KwaZulu-Natal University Press, 2004
The Singularity of Literature Routledge, 2004
Ulysses: A Casebook (edited) Oxford University Press, 2004
How to Read Joyce Granta Books, 2007
Theory after 'Theory' (co-edited with Jane Elliott) Routledge, 2010
Reading and Responsibility: Deconstruction’s Traces Edinburgh University Press, 2010
Previous appointments
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - University of Southampton (1973–1984)
- Professor - University of Strathclyde (1984–1988)
- Various foreign appointments, including Leverhulme Research Professor - Rutgers University (1988–1998)
Titles
- Mr Derek Attridge (1945–1972)
- Dr Derek Attridge (1972–1984)
- Prof. Derek Attridge (1984–2007)
- Prof. Derek Attridge FBA (2007-)
Honours and awards
- ESSE Book Award (2006)
- Fellow - British Academy (2007)
External links
- Audio of Derek Attridge's lecture "Reading and Responsibility." at Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities on October 16, 2007.
- " A link to Dr. Attridge's new Cambridge title, his 10th book to be published by the press.
