Background
Born in 1952, he grew up in Enniskillen, N. Ireland, and was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Cambridge.
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Francis Mulhern
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Career
He has taught at universities in Ireland, Italy, Brazil and the United States, where he was Hinkley Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University. He was for many years Professor of Critical Studies at Middlesex University, where he taught English and intellectual history. His books include
Figures of Catastrophe: The Condition of Culture Novel (Verso, 2016)
Culture/Metaculture (Routledge, 2000)
The Moment of "Scrutiny" (NLB>Verso, 1979)
Edited works include
Roberto Schwarz, Two Girls and Other Essays (Verso, 2012)
Contemporary Marxist Literary Criticism (Longman, 1992)
Raymond Williams, What I Came to Say (with Jenny Bourne Taylor and Neil Belton, Hutchinson Radius, 1989).
Politics
The Present Lasts a Long Time: Essays in cultural politics (Cork University Press, 1998)
Lives on the Left: Interviews with New Left Review (Verso, 2011).
