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Faculty of Arts and HumanitiesDepartment of English I

Prof. Dr. Paul Arthur held the Dr. R. Marika Visiting Chair of Australian Studies in the winter semester 2013/2014.

Prof. Dr. Paul Arthur held the Dr. R. Marika Visiting Chair of Australian Studies in the winter semester 2013/2014.

Prof. Dr. Bill Ashcroft held the Dr. R. Marika Visiting Chair of Australian Studies in the summer semester 2011.


Bill Ashcroft is an Australian Professorial Fellow in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts. A founding exponent of post-colonial theory, co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to examine systematically the field of post-colonial studies. He is author and co-author of sixteen books, variously translated into five languages, Including Post-Colonial Transformation (Routledge 2001), Post-Colonial Futures (Continuum 2001); Caliban's Voice (Routledge 2008) and Intimate Horizons (ATF 2009). He is the author of over 150 chapters and papers, and he is on the editorial boards of ten international journals.

 

Publications

 

(for complete list please visit  https://sam.arts.unsw.edu.au/<wbr />about-us/people/bill-ashcroft/)

  • Ashcroft B, 2016, Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures, Routledge
  • Ashcroft, B., (ed.), 2014, Patrick White Centenary: The Legacy of a Prodigal Son, 1, Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle
  • Ashcroft B, (ed.), 2012, Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century, 1, Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York
  • Ashcroft B; Devlin Glass F; McCredden L, 2009, Intimate Horizons: the Post-Colonial Sacred in Australian Literature, 1, Australian Theological Forum Press, Adelaide
  • Ashcroft B, 2008, Caliban's Voice: The Transformation of English in Post-Colonial Literatures, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203091050
  • Ashcroft B; Khadim H, 2001, Edward Said and the Post-colonial, 1, Nova Science Publishers, Huntington, NY
  • Ashcroft B, 2001, On Post-Colonial Futures: Transformations of Colonial Culture, Original, Continuum Publishing Co, London
  • Ashcroft B, 2001, Post-Colonial Transformation, Original, Routledge Press, London
  • Ashcroft B; Ahluwalia P; Knight R, (eds.), 1999, White and Deadly: Sugar and Colonialism, 1, Nova Science, New York
  • Ashcroft B; Ahluwalia P, 1999, Edward Said: the paradox of identity, Original, Routledge Press, London
  • Ashcroft B; Tiffin H; Griffiths G, 1998, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, Original, Routledge Press, London and New York
  • Ashcroft B, 1996, The gimbals of unease: the poetry of Francis Webb, Original, Centre for the Study of Australian Literature, Nedlands, Western Australian
  • Ashcroft B; Griffiths G; Tiffin H, 1995, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, 1, Routledge Press, London
  • Ashcroft B; Griffiths G; Tiffin H, 1989, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures, 1st, Routledge Press, London