Derek Attridge


Derek Attridge FBA is a South African-born British academic in the field of English literature and a current Professor of English at the University of York, a post he has held since 2003. Attridge undertakes research in South African literature, James Joyce, deconstruction and literary theory and the performance of poetry. He wrote a monograph on South African writer J. M. Coetzee.
Professor Attridge's new work, The Cambridge History of South African Literature, co-edited with Prof David Atwell of York, is the 10th work by Professor Attridge published by Cambridge University Press.

Education

Attridge received his Bachelor of Arts from Natal University in South Africa before moving to the UK to complete his Master of Arts and PhD at Clare College, Cambridge. He was a professor at Rutgers University until 1997, when he moved to the University of York.

Selected publications