Professor Andrew Gibson

PERSONAL PROFILE

Whilst Professor Andrew Gibson`s intellectual and literary life has pointed him in various different directions, not only academic ones, he has spent most of his working life in universities. He was educated and carried out his research at the University of Oxford, and has taught and given lectures at universities around the world, from San Francisco to Berlin to Dublin to periods in Chicago, Paris, Tokyo and Adelaide to three years in Hong Kong. However, he mainly pursued his academic career in the distinguished, traditional, federal University of London, and his major allegiance was to it.

Andrew was for a long time Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at one of the colleges of the University, Royal Holloway College (later known simply as Royal Holloway), where he taught until retirement in 2020. In 2008 he served as Carole and Gordon Segal Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Chicago where, among others, Richard Ellmann taught from 1951 to 1968, establishing a tradition in the study of Irish literature. Andrew has also had a serious commitment over some years to the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris, The Collège was founded in 1983, by Jacques Derrida among others, and has been much associated with names that include Jean-François Lyotard and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Recent directors have included major philosophers like Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin.  Andrew was a member of its Conseil Scientifique from 2010 to 2017, and also served on its Comité de Selection.

In 2017, Andrew was appointed Visiting Professor to the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide, where he gave a series of masterclasses on the fiction of J.M. Coetzee in 2019. In the past, he has twice served as Visiting Professor at the Scandinavian Summer School of Literature and Theory. In 2002, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan's premier university. He has served as Visiting Professor at the Nordic Universities Summer School, and as a Research Projects Assessor for the Academy of Finland. From 2003 to 2005, he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow.

Andrew is a permanent advisory editor to the James Joyce Quarterly and a former Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation. He is Associate Member of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading. He has served as a member of the editorial board of the Anglo-French journal in Beckett scholarship set up at the Université de Paris VII to build bridges between French and Anglophone Beckett Studies, Limit(e) Beckett. He has also been a member of the editorial board of Textuel (Université de Paris VII), Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Critical Zone and Miscelánea (University of Zaragoza). He is a member of the editorial board of New Formations.

Andrew was Founder/Organizer of the London University Seminar for Research into Joyce's Ulysses, and co-Founder/co-Organizer of the London University Finnegans Wake Research Seminar. He was formerly a member of the Advisory Board for Londonicity, the first annual London Studies conference. 

CHILDREN'S Fiction

Professor Andrew Gibson has also written five novels and a collection of stories for children, published by Faber. Right now he is writing another novel and a collection of poems for children. By invitation, he gives creative workshops and talks on writing for children at schools.

Please find below a link to Professor Andrew Gibson's downloadable CV:

Professor Andrew Gibson - CV