Background
He was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, and was educated at the fee-paying Oundle School in Northamptonshire.
Emeritus Professor Previously Professor
He was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, and was educated at the fee-paying Oundle School in Northamptonshire.
He graduated from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1960 with a degree in English Literature, before studying for his Master of Philosophy at Southampton University while employed there as a government research fellowship His two doctorates (Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Science) were awarded by the University of Bristol on the basis of published work.
Inglis has frequently written for The Nation, the New Statesman and The Independent and contributes regularly to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio.
Previously Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick, he has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Fellow-in-Residence at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, and Visiting Fellow Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra. He is a member of the Fabian Society and has stood as a Labour Party candidate for the United Kingdom Parliament on four occasions.