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 essays

Rovers Return
HRC: Canberra, February 2011.

Money, Markets, Universities and the Good Society
Canterbury Christchurch University, 22 June 2011

Hitch-22: A Review
Times Higher Education.

Updated October 2009