Alan Sinfield
Encyclopedia
Alan Sinfield is an English theorist in the fields of Shakespeare and sexuality
, modern theatre, gender studies
, queer theory
(queer studies
), post 1945 politics
and cultural theory
. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain first published in 1989, is a revolutionary socialist interpretation of the postwar cultural settlement and its destruction. He pioneered the Sexual Dissidence programme at the University of Sussex with Jonathan Dollimore
and continues to teach post-graduate students and research in the field of sexual dissidence at The University of Sussex
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
, modern theatre, gender studies
Gender studies
Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location.Gender study has many different forms. One view exposed by the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"...
, queer theory
Queer theory
Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of LGBT studies and feminist studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself...
(queer studies
Queer studies
Queer studies is the critical theory based study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people and cultures. Universities have also labeled this area of analysis Sexual Diversity Studies, Sexualities...
), post 1945 politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
and cultural theory
Culture theory
Culture theory is the branch of anthropology and semiotics that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and/or scientific terms....
. Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain first published in 1989, is a revolutionary socialist interpretation of the postwar cultural settlement and its destruction. He pioneered the Sexual Dissidence programme at the University of Sussex with Jonathan Dollimore
Jonathan Dollimore
Jonathan Dollimore is a British sociologist and social theorist in the fields of Renaissance literature , gender studies, queer theory , art, censorship, history of ideas, death studies, decadence, and cultural theory...
and continues to teach post-graduate students and research in the field of sexual dissidence at The University of Sussex
University of Sussex
The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....
Major publications
His many books include- Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism (2006)
- Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (2004)
- On Sexuality and Power (2004)
- Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theatre in the Twentieth Century (1999)
- Gay and After: Gender, Culture and Consumption (1998)
- The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Moment (1994)
- Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism (1994) (With Jonathan DollimoreJonathan DollimoreJonathan Dollimore is a British sociologist and social theorist in the fields of Renaissance literature , gender studies, queer theory , art, censorship, history of ideas, death studies, decadence, and cultural theory...
) - Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading (1992).