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Professor Robert Young FBA

Cultural and political history, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, translation, with a particular focus on postcolonial theory
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Literature
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website
http://www.robertjcyoung.com/

Current post

Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University

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