Claire Colebrook

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Claire Colebrook
Born
Claire Mary Colebrook

(1965-10-25) 25 October 1965
NationalityAustralian
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Known forCultural theorist

Claire Colebrook (or Claire Mary Colebrook) (born 25 October 1965),[1] is an Australian cultural theorist, currently appointed Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.[2] She has published numerous works on Gilles Deleuze, visual art, poetry, queer theory, film studies, contemporary literature, theory, cultural studies and visual culture. She is the editor (with Tom Cohen) of the Critical Climate Change Book Series at Open Humanities Press.[3]

Biography

Colebrook's education consists of a Bachelor of Arts taken at the University of Melbourne (1987), a Bachelor of Letters at Australian National University (1989) and a Doctor of Philosophy earned at the University of Edinburgh (1993).[2]

Publications

Books
  • New Literary Histories (1997)
  • Ethics and Representation (1999)
  • Deleuze: A Guide for the Perplexed (1997)
  • Gilles Deleuze (2002)
  • Understanding Deleuze (2002)
  • Irony in the Work of Philosophy (2002)
  • Gender (2003)
  • Irony (2004)
  • Milton, Evil and Literary History (2008)
  • Deleuze and the Meaning of Life (2010)
  • William Blake and Digital Aesthetics (2011)
Co-authored
Co-edited

Grants and awards

  • British Academy Overseas Conference Award (2004)
  • British Academy/Australian Academy Joint Award (with Dr David Bennett) (2006)
  • Carnegie Trust Fund (2006)
  • British Academy Small Grant (2006)
  • Huntington Library Fellowship (2007)
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council Leave Scheme (2007)
  • Goldsmiths College (2008)
  • Archive and Knowledge Transfer (2008)
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School, Free University, Berlin (2010)

References

  1. "Colebrook, Claire". Library of Congress. Retrieved 23 July 2014. CIP t.p. (Claire Colebrook) data sheet (b. 25 Oct. 1965)
  2. Claire Mary Colebrook Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English
  3. Open Humanities Press Book Series Critical Climate Change: Editors: Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook
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