Robert J.C. Young

Robert J. C. Young is Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University. He writes in the fields of cultural and political history, literature, literary theory and philosophy, photography, psychoanalysis, and translation studies, with a particular focus on colonial history and postcolonial theory. He is the author of White Mythologies, Colonial Desire, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, The Idea of English Ethnicity, and Empire, Colony, Postcolony.