Colin MacCabe

Colin MacCabe is Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh. After becoming the youngest professor of English in the UK with a Chair at Strathclyde University in the 1980s, he split his energies between literary criticism at the University of Pittsburgh and producing films at the BFI; Minerva Pictures; and The Derek Jarman Lab. Throughout his career he has studied and taught on James Joyce while writing on many other topics in film and literature in subsequent decades. MacCabe's books include Keywords for Today, James Joyce: A Very Short Introduction, and Perpetual Carnival: Essays on Film and Literature.