Fred Inglis

Who is Fred Inglis?

Fred Inglis is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and Visiting Fellow Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra.

He was born in Stockton-on-Tees, 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.

Inglis has frequently written for The Nation, the New Statesman and The Independent and contributes regularly to BBC Radio. He is a member of the Fabian Society and has stood as a Labour Party candidate for the UK Parliament on four occasions.