Andrew Milner
Andrew Milner (born 1950, Leeds, United Kingdom) is Professor of Cultural Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His primary academic interests include contemporary cultural theory, sociology of literature, the works of Fredric Jameson, Pierre Bourdieu, John Milton, Utopianism and Science Fiction. Milner’s works have been published around the world and translated into many languages including Portuguese, Korean, Chinese, and Farsi.
Education
- Postgraduate: Ph.D., University of London (London School of Economics), 1977.
Thesis title: `John Milton and the English Revolution: A Study in the Sociology of Literature'.
- Undergraduate: B.Sc. (Econ.), University of London (London School of Economics), 1972. Honours in Sociology.
Career
Andrew Milner began his academic career tutoring in sociology at the University of London in 1972. He was appointed lecturer in sociology at the University of Canberra in 1977 and then at the University of London in 1979. In 1980 he began his work at Monash University. During his time at Monash, Milner has worked as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of London (1984), the University of Leeds (1992), and the University of Warwick (1996 & 2000), and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool (2007-2008). Milner became a Professor of Cultural Studies at Monash Univesity in 2000.
A selection of writings by Andrew Milner
- Literature, Culture and Society, second edition, Routledge, London and New York, 2005.
- Re-Imagining Cultural Studies: The Promise of Cultural Materialism, Sage Publications, London, 2002.
- Class, Sage Publications, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi, 1999.
- Literature, Culture and Society, University College London Press, London, 1996.
- Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction, second edition, University College London Press, London, 1994. Korean translation, Han-Teut Publishing, Seoul, 1996.
- Cultural Materialism, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1993.
- The Road to St. Kilda Pier: George Orwell and the Politics of the Australian Left, Stained Wattle Press, Sydney, 1984.
- John Milton and the English Revolution: A Study in the Sociology of Literature, Macmillan, London, 1981. US edition: Barnes & Noble, New York.
Edited works
- Andrew Milner, Matthew Ryan and Robert Savage (eds), Imagining the Future: Utopia and Dystopia, Arena Publications, Melbourne, 2006.
- Postwar British Critical Thought, Volume One-Four: Old Right and New Left Sage Publications, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi, 2005.
- Andrew Milner, Philip Thomson and Chris Worth (eds), Postmodern Conditions, Berg, Oxford, 1990.
- Andrew Milner and Chris Worth (eds), Discourse and Difference: Post-Structuralism, Feminism and the Moment of History, Centre for General and Comparative Literature, Monash University, Melbourne, 1990.