BA (Hons), English Literature, MPhil and MA, English and American Literature and DPhil, English Literature, Christ Church, Oxford. 1978-94, Reader in English Literature, Sussex University; 1994, Professor in English Literature, University of Chicago; 1996-2000, Chester D Tripp Distinguished Service Professor in Humanities, University of Chicago; 1998, Visiting Professor, University College, London; since 2001, current position. Member, 2000 UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness programme review committee. Member of numerous editorial boards. Editor, Oxford Literary Review. Author of numerous publications including books and forthcoming, A Measure of Dwelling: Reflections on Vernacular Cosmopolitanism and The Right to Narrate; O Local da Cultura, a Portuguese translation of Location of Culture (1998). Recipient of numerous fellowships and awards. Expertise: arts, literature, humanities.