Andrew Hussey

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Andrew Hussey , OBE , (born in Liverpool in 1963 ) is a British Romanist.

Life

Andrew Hussey's parents were working class in Liverpool. He studied French at the University of Manchester and the University of Lyon III . His dissertation in Manchester on Georges Bataille was printed in 2000. He did research on the Situationist International and wrote a biography on Guy Debord .

Hussey taught French at the University of Huddersfield and was a senior lecturer in French at Aberystwyth University . In 2006 he moved to the University of London Institute in Paris . In 2014 he was appointed director of the Center for Post-Colonial Studies at the School of Advanced Study in London.

Hussey initially wrote for the later discontinued Modern Review . He is a contributor to The Observer , New Statesman , Granta Books, and the Literary Review .

In 2007 Hussey wrote a foreword for a new edition of Francis Hervé's Paris guide How to Enjoy Paris in 1842, a Companion and Monitor ; he had published his own Paris book in 2006. In 2011 he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to British-French relations .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Inner Scar: The Mysticism of Georges Bataille . Amsterdam; Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000
  • The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord . London: J. Cape, 2001
  • The Beast at Heaven's Gate: Georges Bataille and the Art of Transgression . Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2006
  • Paris: The Secret History . New York: Bloomsbury, 2006
  • The French Intifada: how the Arab banlieues are fighting the French state , essay, in The Guardian , February 23, 2014
  • The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs . New York: Faber & Faber, 2014
  • The return of the postcolonial displaced: French anti-Semitism in the 21st century , in: Anti-Semitism and other hostilities: Interactions of resentments . Edited on behalf of the Fritz Bauer Institute by Katharina Rauschenberger and Werner Konitzer. Frankfurt am Main: Campus-Verl., 2015 ISBN 9783593432441 , pp. 115–124

literature

  • Tony Barber: Lost to Liberté . Review, in: Financial Times , March 8, 2014, p. 11

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bailey Alexander: Andrew Hussey; the cuddly, cosmopolitan Liverpudlian. ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Blog, February 21, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / baileyalexander.typepad.com
personal data
SURNAME Hussey, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Liverpool