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A member of the faculty of the Department of English since 2005, Professor Young came to NYU from Oxford University, where he was a professor of English and critical theory and a fellow of Wadham College. He has also held appointments at Southampton University and Rutgers University. Heearned his B.A., M.A., and D.Phil. degrees in English from Exeter College, Oxford University. Professor Young is one of the early pioneers and most influential scholars in the rapidly growing fields of Anglophone and postcolonial literatures; this interdisciplinary literary field involves research that also crosses over into areas of history, theory, philosophy, anthropology and translation studies. His books include White Mythologies: Writing History and the West; Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race; Torn Halves: Political Conflict in Literacy and Cultural Theory; Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction; The Idea of English Ethnicity. He is also General Editor of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies and was founding editor of The Oxford Literary Review. Professor Young has lectured in over 20 countries, and his work has been translated into 14 languages. |
