Bill Ashcroft
Literary critic and scholar (born 1946)
About Bill Ashcroft
Born 1946. Bill Ashcroft is a literary critic, literary scholar, political scientist, university teacher, philologist and scholar of English.
Bill Ashcroft is an Australian literary theorist, critic, and an emeritus professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He is recognized as a founding exponent of post-colonial theory. Alongside Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, he co-wrote the 1989 text, The Empire Writes Back, which was the first major work to systematically outline and define the field of post-colonial studies.
He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2015.
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literary critic and scholar (born 1946)
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Bill Ashcroft is a literary critic, literary scholar, political scientist, university teacher, philologist and scholar of English.
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