Colin MacCabe#


Colin MacCabe
Membership Number:4124
Membership type:FOREIGN
Section:FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES
Elected:2015
Main Country of Residence:UNITED STATES
Homepage(s):http://www.englishlit.pitt.edu/person/colin-maccabe






Present and Previous Positions

  • 2002 - present Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2006 - 2013 Associate Director, London Consortium
  • 2006 - 2010 Professor of English and Humanities Birkbeck, University of London
  • 1998 – 2008 Producer, Minerva Pictures.
  • 1998 - 2006 Professor of English, University of Exeter
  • 1986 - 2002 Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh
  • 1989 - 1998 Head of Research, British Film Institute
  • 1985 - 1989 Head of Production, British Film Institute
  • 1981 - 1985 Professor of English, University of Strathclyde
  • 1976 - 1981 University Assistant Lecturer in English, Cambridge University College Lecturer and Fellow, King's College, Cambridge

Fields of Scholarship
  • English literature
  • Literary theory
  • Joyce studies
  • Cultural studies
  • Film studies
  • Godard and French Nouvelle Vague
  • Colonial film
  • Production of films

Honours and Awards
  • 2014 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
  • 2011 Scholar in Residence, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (July-December)
  • 2010 Chancellor’s Distinguished Research Award, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2009 Visiting Scholar, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
  • 2008 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the United Kingdom research grant of £500,000 for “Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire”
  • 2004 Juror, Cannes Film Festival.
  • 2001 – the present: Member, British Academy of Film and Television Arts
  • 1999 – the present: Member, European Film Academy
  • 1992: British Academy Award to research early history of Cahiers du Cinema in Paris (January to March 1993)
  • 1985-1991: Chairman, John Logie Baird Research Centre, University of Strathclyde
  • 1978: British Academy award to work with the philosopher and linguist Michel Pecheux in Paris (Winter 1979)

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