Colin MacCabe#
Membership Number: | 4124 |
Membership type: | FOREIGN |
Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2015 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Homepage(s): | http://www.englishlit.pitt.edu/person/colin-maccabe |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh
- 2006 - 2013 Associate Director, London Consortium
- 2006 - 2010 Professor of English and Humanities Birkbeck, University of London
- 1998 – 2008 Producer, Minerva Pictures.
- 1998 - 2006 Professor of English, University of Exeter
- 1986 - 2002 Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
- 1989 - 1998 Head of Research, British Film Institute
- 1985 - 1989 Head of Production, British Film Institute
- 1981 - 1985 Professor of English, University of Strathclyde
- 1976 - 1981 University Assistant Lecturer in English, Cambridge University College Lecturer and Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- English literature
- Literary theory
- Joyce studies
- Cultural studies
- Film studies
- Godard and French Nouvelle Vague
- Colonial film
- Production of films
Honours and Awards
- 2014 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
- 2011 Scholar in Residence, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (July-December)
- 2010 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh
- 2009 Visiting Scholar, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- 2008 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the United Kingdom research grant of £500,000 for “Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire”
- 2004 Juror, Cannes Film Festival.
- 2001 – the present: Member, British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- 1999 – the present: Member, European Film Academy
- 1992: British Academy Award to research early history of Cahiers du Cinema in Paris (January to March 1993)
- 1985-1991: Chairman, John Logie Baird Research Centre, University of Strathclyde
- 1978: British Academy award to work with the philosopher and linguist Michel Pecheux in Paris (Winter 1979)