Alistair Fox

Alistair Fox

Alistair Graeme Fox (born 23 June 1948) currently holds the title of Professor Emeritus at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Until his retirement in 2013, he held a Personal Chair in English Literature at this same university, where he served as Pro-Vice Chancellor, Division of Humanities,1998-2008. His honors include Nuffield Visiting Fellow, Claire Hall, Cambridge (1980-1981) and Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (1987-1988). Initially known for his scholarship on English Tudor Literature, since 2008 he has turned to topics addressing New Zealand literature and culture, cinema studies, and theories of literary and cinematic representation. He has also translated a number of significant scholarly works from French into English, most recently Truffaut on Cinema, ed. Anne Gillain (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016)[ISBN 978-0-253-02575-3].

His major published works cross disciplinary boundaries and are widely cited internationally. These include:

Coming of Age in New Zealand: Genre, Gender and Adaptation in New Zealand Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017) [ISBN 9781474429443]; Speaking Pictures: Neuropyschoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016) [ISBN 978-0-253-22301-2]; Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2011) [ISBN 978-0-253-22301-2]; The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (Dunedin; Otago University Press, 2008) [ISBN 978 1 877372 54 4]; The English Renaissance: Identity and Representation in the Reign of Elizabeth I (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1997) [ISBN 978-0-631-19029-5]; Utopia: An Elusive Vision, Twayne Masterworks (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1993) [ISBN 0805785701]; Politics and Literature in the Reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989) [ISBN 0631146148]; Thomas More: History and Providence (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1982; New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983) [ISBN 0631130942].

External links

http://www.otago.ac.nz/english-linguistics/staff/otago090867.html, accessed 27 January 2018. https://www.amazon.com/Alistair-Fox/e/B001HPR0M8, accessed 27 January 2018.