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Ian Balfour

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Ian Balfour is Professor of English and Social and Political Thought at York University and has also served as visiting professor at additional universities including Williams College, Rice University, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University,[1] and Cornell.[2] He has been a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles twice.[3].[4] He has written several books and been involved in film editing.

Work[edit]

Balfour's scholarship includes work on Romanticism and Idealism. He is a specialist in postmodern critical theories and deconstruction, having done his graduate training under Jacques Derrida and Paul de Man.

His book Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy[5] examines prophecy in the Romantic era in England and Germany. The book was awarded the MLA's Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literature and the Barricelli Prize from the International Conference on Romanticism.[3]

Balfour co-edited a book with Atom Egoyan[6] and two special issues of the journal SAQ,[7] on Human Rights, and on Deconstruction.[8][9]

Education[edit]

  • Ph.D. Yale University
  • M.A. University of Toronto
  • B.A. York University

References[edit]

  1. Services, University of Chicago IT. "Critical Inquiry". criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  2. "Ian Balfour lectures on Romanticism and freedom". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  3. 3.0 3.1 O'Neill, Michael; Howe, Anthony; English), Tony Howe (Lecturer in; Callaghan, Madeleine (2013). The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-955836-0. Search this book on
  4. Press, The MIT. "Ian Balfour". mitpress.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  5. "The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy | Ian Balfour".
  6. "Subtitles | the MIT Press".
  7. "In the Romantic Era & Beyond by Ian Balfour". Events and Announcements. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  8. https://www.dukeupress.edu/and-justice-for-all
  9. https://www.dukeupress.edu/late-derrida?viewby=author&lastname=Balfour&firstname=Ian&middlename=&displayName=&sort=newest&aID=1087302

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