Derek Attridge, Date of Birth

Derek Attridge

British academic:English literature/current Professor of English/University of York

Date of Birth: 06-May-1945

Profession: university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Derek Attridge FBA (born 6 May 1945) 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.