STUART HALL

Professor and Chairman

Stuart Hall was born in Kingston, Jamaica and was educated in Jamaica and at Merton College, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar). He is currently emeritus at The Open University and Visiting Professor, Goldsmith College, Milton Keynes, he was Research Fellow and then Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham. Research interests in cultural theory and cultural studies, race, ethnicity and cultural identity. Publications include: Resistance through Rituals, The Popular Arts, Policing the Crisis, Culture, Media, Language, New Times, Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, Questions of Cultural Identity, Representation and Visual Culture: A Reader

Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies, a collection of writings by and about Hall, provides a representative selection of his influential writings on cultural studies and its concerns: the relationship with Marxism; postmodernism in cultural and political thought; the development of cultural studies as an international and postcolonial phenomenon; and his engagement with urgent and abiding questions of race, ethnicity and identity.

In addition to presenting classic writings by Hall and interviews with Hall in dialogue with Kuan-Hsing Chen, the collection provides a detailed analysis of his work and illustrates how his influence is felt by those doing the most important work in the field of cultural criticism.