Derek Attridge

Derek Attridge FBA (born 6 May 1945) is a South African-born British literary scholar in the field of English literature. He has made major contributions to several fields: literary theory, the forms and history of poetry, Irish fiction (especially the work of James Joyce), and South African literature. His best-known book, ''The Singularity of Literature'' (2004), won the European Society for the Study of English Book Award in 2006. It has been described as "a brilliant and engaging reflection on how to think literature in terms of the singularity of its event" and as "a deeply important book [that] offers perspectives that can help to radically reconfigure our understanding of language and literature and much else." In 2017 it was reissued in the Routledge Classics series.

Attridge is Emeritus Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York, having retired from the university in 2016, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author or editor of thirty books, and has published around eighty articles in essay collections and a similar number in journals. He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leverhulme Research Professorship, and Fellowships at the National Humanities Center, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, and All Souls and St. Catherine's Colleges, Oxford. Among the visiting positions he has held have been professorships at the American University of Cairo, the University of Sassari, the University of Cape Town, Northwestern University, Wellesley College, and the University of Queensland. He was the first recipient of the Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award in 1999. Provided by Wikipedia