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Simon During FAHA (born 1950) is a New Zealand-born academic and cultural theorist.

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Career

During completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. In 1983, he joined the English Department at the University of Melbourne as a tutor, where, ten years later and after visiting positions at the University of Auckland and the Rhetoric Dept, UC Berkeley, he was appointed to the Robert Wallace chair. After establishing the Cultural Studies, Media and Communications and Publishing programs at Melbourne, he left for Johns Hopkins University in 2001, and taught in the English department there for nine years.[ citation needed ]

Between 2010 and 2017 he was a Research Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland and in 2018 was appointed a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has also held visiting positions at the Frei Universität Berlin, Universität Tübingen, the American Academy of Rome, the University of Cambridge, Université de Paris and elsewhere. In 2001 he was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Australian Prime Minister for services to the humanities. In 2019 he lectured and travelled in Kerala as a recipient of Kerala's Higher Education Council's Erudite Scholar award.[ citation needed ]

He is listed as “Foucault consultant” in the film Ghosts of the Civil Dead by John Hillcoat and Nick Cave.[ citation needed ]

His scholarly work contributes to the study of British literary history, literary and cultural theory, postcolonialism, secularism, Australian and New Zealand literatures, and has been translated into many languages. His books include Foucault and Literature (Routledge 1991) Patrick White (Oxford 1994), Exit Capitalism, literary culture, theory and post-secular modernity (Routledge 2010) and, most recently, Against Democracy: literary experience in the era of emancipations (Fordham 2012). His anthology The Cultural Studies Reader is a standard textbook in the field. Perhaps his best-known book is Modern Enchantments: The Cultural and Secular Power of Magic (2002), which explores the history of magic. [1] [2] [3]

During's work mainly focuses on the history and theory of the humanities. He has a longstanding interest in relations between Anglicanism and literature between 1688 and 1945. In recent years, he has also been associated with postcritique. [4]

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2000. [5]

Personal life

During's great–aunt was the Czech artist Gertrud Kauders who died in Theresienstadt in 1942. [6] His father, who was a soil scientist, changed his name from Cornelius Kauders to Peter During on arrival in New Zealand in the 1940s. [6] The neuroscientist Matthew During was his brother. [6] During is married to the Australian academic Lisa O’Connell and has two children, Nicholas and Cornelia During.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Flint, James. (2002). "Modern Enchantments: The Cultural and Secular Power of Magic". The Guardian.
  2. ↑ Reed, Brian. (2004). "Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic (review)". MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly.
  3. ↑ "Modern Enchantments". Harvard University Press.
  4. ↑ Anker, Elizabeth S.; Felski, Rita (7 April 2017). Critique and Postcritique. Duke University Press. ISBN   9780822363613.
  5. ↑ "Fellow Profile: Simon During". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 Chapple, Geoff (10 October 2020). "To Prague, with love". Listener: 11–15.
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