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RichardDyer

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RichardDyer(born1945)isanEnglishacademiccurrently
holdingaprofessorshipintheDepartmentofFilmStudiesat
King'sCollegeLondon.Specializingincinema(particularly
Italiancinema),queertheory,andtherelationshipbetween
entertainmentandrepresentationsofrace,sexuality,andgender,
hewaspreviouslyafacultymemberoftheFilmStudies
DepartmentattheUniversityofWarwickformanyyearsandhas
heldanumberofvisitingprofessorshipsintheUnitedKingdom,
theUnitedStates,Italy,Sweden,Denmark,andGermany.[1]

Contents
1Career
2White:EssaysonRaceandCulture
3OtherNotableWorks

RichardDyer(2010)

4PublicIntellectualLife
5Awards
6SelectedBibliography
7Seealso
8References
9Externallinks

Career
BorninLeedsandraisedinthesuburbsofLondonduringthe1940sand1950s,DyerstudiedFrench(as
wellasEnglish,German,andPhilosophy)attheUniversityofStAndrew's.Hethenwentontoearnhis
doctoraldegreeinEnglishattheUniversityofBirminghamsCenterforContemporaryCulturalStudies.
BeforecomingtoKing'sCollegeLondonin2006,hewasaProfessorofFilmStudiesattheUniversity
ofWarwickandavisitingprofessoratthefollowinginstitutions:UniversityofPennsylvanias
AnnenbergSchoolofCommunicationsin1985theIstitutoUniversitarioOrientalein1987Stockholm
Universityin1996,2006,and2010theUniversityofCopenhagenin2002NewYorkUniversityin
2003theUniversityofBergamoin2004BauhausUniversitatWeimarin2009theUniversityofSt.
Andrewsin2011.Throughouthiscareer,hehastaughtcoursesonraceandethnicity,film,Stardom,
Hollywood,Italiancinema,FedericoFellini,andrepresentation.[2]Heisalsoveryinvolvedingraduate
education,andhassuperviseddissertationsonsubjectsrangingfromthehistoryofgaycinemaduring
the1970stoexperimentalanimation.[3]Havingalreadypublishedwidelyonwhiteness,film,andlesbian
andgaycultures,DyerrecentlypublishedjournalarticlesandbookchaptersonsonginItaliancinema
andwhitenessinthefilm,DirtyDancing.[4]

White:EssaysonRaceandCulture

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