Robert J. C. Young#
| Membership Number: | 2287 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2005 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | https://as.nyu.edu/english/directory.robert-young.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University
- Professor of English and Critical Theory, Oxford University
Fields of Scholarship
- Photography
- François Tosquelles and institutional psychotherapy
- Literature and literary theory
- Cultural and political history
- Race and translation studies
- Philosophy
- Colonial history and postcolonial theory
- Frantz Fanon
- Ecophilosophy
- Psychoanalysis
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- 2017 Honorary life fellowship at Wadham College, Oxford
- President of the AILC/ICLA Research Committee on Literary Theory
