Department of English Studies

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Department of English Studies

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK

B.A. (Cambridge), M.A. (London and Cambridge), Ph.D. (Cambridge)

David Richards has an M.A. in English from the University of Cambridge, an M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. He joined the Department as Professor of English Studies in 2006 having held posts at the universities of Leeds and Birmingham and at the Open University where he was the founding Director of the Ferguson Research Centre. He was the Deputy Director of the Centre for African Studies at Leeds and is currently the Director of the Stirling Centre of Commonwealth Studies.

His chief research interests are in the areas of colonial and postcolonial literature, anthropology, art history and cultural theory.

His published work includes studies of individual writers, the representation of other cultures in literature, anthropology and art, cultural production in post-colonial cities, and discourses of the ‘archaic’ in colonial and postcolonial cultures. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several journals.

He has given lectures and papers at conferences and colloquia at universities throughout the UK, most recently at the universities of Cambridge, Bradford, York, London Metropolitan, Dundee, Edinburgh, Kent, North London, at AHRB Centre CATH, Leeds, and The British Museum. Internationally, he has given papers and invited lectures at the University of Tampere in Finland, at the Universities of Lagos and Nsukka in Nigeria, at Plovdiv in Bulgaria, and at Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, and at numerous universities in Morocco.

He is currently completing a monograph on the cultural history of the archaic, which will examine the role of anthropology and (more centrally) archaeology in modernism and postcolonialism over the period from 1875 to the present. He is also developing an interdisciplinary collaborative project on the politics of memory.