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About Andrew William Gibson
- Andrew William Gibson (born 1949) is a scholar, philosopher, children's writer and academic. He has published widely on James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, literary theory and philosophy - particularly the work of Alain Badiou.
- His publications include Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' (Oxford University Press, 2002), Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency (Oxford University Press, 2006), Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), and The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics in the writings of James Joyce 1898-1915 (Oxford University Press, 2013).
- His most recent book is Misanthropy: The Critique of Humanity (Bloomsbury, 2017).
- His Modernity and the Political Fix will be published by Bloomsbury in 2019.Gibson was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 1977.
- He was founder and, from 1986 to 2014, organiser of the London University Seminar for Research into James Joyce's Ulysses and subsequently co-founder of the London University Finnegans Wake seminar.
- He is a permanent advisory editor to the James Joyce Quarterly and former trustee of the international James Joyce Foundation.
- He is also an Associate Member of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading.
- From 2010 to 2017, he was a member of the Conseil scientifique of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.
- He also served on its Comité de Selection.In 2001 and 2002, he was Visiting Professor at the Scandinavian Summer School of Literature and Theory.
- In 2002, he was subsequently Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo.
- In 2008, he was Carol and Gordon Segal Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University in Chicago.
- In 2017, he was appointed Visiting Professor to the J.M.
- Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the university of Adelaide.
- He was Research Professor in Modern Literature and Theory in the English Department at Royal Holloway for many years until 2015.Gibson is also the author of five novels and a collection of short stories for children, all published by Faber.
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