Andrew William Gibson


Andrew William Gibson is a British scholar, philosopher, children's writer and academic.
WWW professorandrewgibson.com

Career

Gibson has published widely on James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, literary theory, and philosophy - particularly the work of Alain Badiou. His publications include Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in James Joyce's 'Ulysses', Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency, Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy, and The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics in the writings of James Joyce 1898-1915. His most recent book is Misanthropy: The Critique of Humanity. His Modernity and the Political Fix was published by Bloomsbury in 2019.
Gibson was appointed to a Lectureship in English at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 1977. He was founder and, from 1986 to 2014, organiser of the London University Seminar for Research into James Joyce's Ulysses, and subsequently co-founder of the London University Finnegans Wake seminar. He is a permanent advisory editor to the James Joyce Quarterly and former trustee of the international James Joyce Foundation. He is also an Associate Member of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading. From 2010 to 2017, he was a member of the Conseil scientifique of the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. He also served on its Comité de Selection.
In 2001 and 2002, he was visiting professor at the Scandinavian Summer School of Literature and Theory. In 2002, he was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo. In 2008, he was Carol and Gordon Segal Professor of Irish Literature at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 2017, he was appointed visiting professor to the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia. He was research professor in modern literature and theory in the English Department at Royal Holloway for many years until 2015.
He retired from Royal Holloway in 2019.

Fiction

Gibson is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories for children, all published by Faber.

Selected publications

Literary studies

Reading Narrative Discourse: Studies in the Novel from Cervantes to Beckett Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas' Joyce's Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in 'Ulysses Beckett and Badiou: The Pathos of Intermittency James Joyce: A Critical Life Samuel Beckett: A Critical Life Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy
  • The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics in the Writings of James Joyce 1898-1915,.
  • Misanthropy: The Critique of Humanity.

Children's Fiction

Ellis and the Hummick The Abradazil Jemima, Grandma and the Great Lost Zone The Rollickers and Other Stories The Amazing Witherspoon's Amazing Circus Crew
  • ''Chegwith Skillett Escapes''