Sinfield, Alan

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Name (Latin)
Sinfield, Alan
Date of birth
1941-12-17
Date of death
2017-12-02
Field of activity
English literature--History and criticism
queer studies
Occupation
English teachers
Literary historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
B.A.
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 27082932
Wikidata: Q2202147
Library of congress: n 50026399
Sources of Information
  • Guardian WWW site, viewed Dec. 15, 2017(Alan Sinfield; Alan James Sinfield, scholar of literature and queer studies, born 17 December 1941, Southgate, north London; died 2 December 2017; graduated with a first-class BA from University College London in 1964, completing an MA there in 1967, and receiving a DLitt from UCL in 1987; in 1965 Alan was appointed as a lecturer in English at Sussex; remained at Sussex for the rest of his career; retired from the university as emeritus professor in 2004, but continued to write)
  • Information from 678 converted Dec. 16, 2014(B.A.)
  • His The language of Tennyson's In memoriam, 1971.
  • His Literature, politics, and culture in postwar Britain, 1997:CIP t.p. (Alan Sinfield) data sheet (b. Dec. 17, 1941)
  • Shakespeare, authority, sexuality, 2006:ECIP t.p. (Alan Sinfield) data view (professor of English at the University of Sussex)