Robert J. C. Young

Silver Professor; Professor of English

Education

D. Phil. 1979, M.A. 1977, B.A. 1972, Exeter College, Oxford.

Areas of Research/Interest

Postcolonial literatures and cultures; the history of colonialism and anti-colonialism; cultural history of the 19th and 20th centuries; literary and cultural theory; language and translation.

NYU Affiliations

Department of Social & Cultural Analysis,  Department of Comparative Comparative Literature, Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU Abu Dhabi

Publications

  • Alienation and Freedom
    English translation, revised edition, trans. Steve Corcoran
    London: Bloomsbury, 2018
    Alienation and Freedom
  • Frantz Fanon. Écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté, Œuvres II
    Paris: La Découverte, 2016
    Écrits sur l’aliénation et la liberté
  • Empire, Colony, Postcolony
    Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015
  • The Idea of English Ethnicity.
    Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008.
  • Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction.
    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction.
    Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers; Chennai, India: T.R. Publications, 2001.
  • Torn Halves: Political Conflict in Literary and Cultural Theory.
    Manchester: Manchester University Press, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
  • Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race.
    London and New York: Routledge, 1995.
  • White Mythologies:Writing History and the West.
    London and New York: Routledge, 1990.
  • Editor, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies