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Paul Gilroy (born 16 February 1956) is a Professor of American and English Literature at King's College London. ==Biography== Born in the East End of London to Guyanese and English parents (his mother was novelist Beryl Gilroy),〔Paul Williams, (''Paul Gilroy'' ) (Routledge Critical Thinkers), Routledge, 2013, p. 19.〕 he was educated at University College School and obtained his bachelor's degree at Sussex University in 1978. He moved to Birmingham University where he completed his PhD in 1986. Gilroy is a scholar of Cultural Studies and Black Atlantic diasporic culture with interests in the "myriad manifestations of black British culture."〔Lane, Richard J. ''Fifty Key Literary Theorists''. London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 138.〕 He is the author of ''There Ain't no Black in the Union Jack'' (1987), ''Small Acts'' (1993), ''The Black Atlantic'' (1993), ''Between Camps'' (2000; also published as ''Against Race'' in the United States), and ''After Empire'' (2004; published as ''Postcolonial Melancholia'' in the United States), among other works. Gilroy was also co-author of ''The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 1970s Britain'' (1982), a path-breaking, collectively produced volume published under the imprint of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University, where he was a doctoral student working with the Jamaican intellectual Stuart Hall. Other members of the group which produced that volume included Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar. Gilroy taught at South Bank University, Essex University, and then Goldsmiths College for many years before leaving London to take up a tenured post at Yale University, where he was the chair of the Department of African American Studies and Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of Sociology and African American Studies.〔("Paul Gilroy is designated as the Charlotte Marion Saden Professor" ), ''Yale Bulletin & Calendar'', Volume 32, Number 31, June 4, 2004,〕 He was the first holder of the Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory at the London School of Economics before he joined King's College London in September 2012.〔("Academic Staff: Professor Paul Gilroy" ), King's College London.〕 Gilroy worked for the Greater London Council for several years during the 1980s before becoming an academic. During that period, he was associated with the weekly listings magazine ''City Limits'' (where he was a contributing editor between 1982 and 1984) and ''The Wire'' (where he had a regular column from 1988 to 1991).〔(Paul Gilroy Curriculum Vitae. )〕 Other publications he wrote for during this period include ''New Musical Express'', ''The New Internationalist'' and ''New Statesman and Society''.〔 Gilroy is known as a path-breaking scholar and historian of the music of the Black Atlantic diaspora, as a commentator on the politics of race, nation and racism in the UK, and as an archaeologist of the literary and cultural lives of blacks in the western hemisphere. According to the US ''Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'' he has been consistently among the most frequently cited black scholars in the humanities and social sciences.〔("JBHE’s Annual Citation Rankings of Black Scholars in the Social Sciences and the Humanities" ), ''The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education'', 2009.〕 He held the top position in the humanities rankings in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Gilroy's theories of race, racism and culture were influential in shaping the cultural and political movement of black British people during the 1990s. Along with people like Lenny Henry, Trevor Nelson, Norman Jay, and Ian Wright he has enabled black British people to maintain their native integrity. Gilroy was awarded an honorary doctorate of the University of London by Goldsmiths College in September 2005.〔("Honorary degrees of the University of London, conferred at Goldsmiths' College" ), Goldsmiths University of London.〕 In Autumn 2009 he served as Treaty of Utrecht Visiting Professor at the Centre for Humanities, Utrecht University.〔("Prof. Paul Gilroy first Treaty of Utrecht Visiting Professor" ), Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, 27 August 2009.〕 In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He is married to the writer, photographer and academic Vron Ware. The couple live in North London, and have two children, Marcus and Cora. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Gilroy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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