Alan Sinfield was a professor of English at the University of Sussex, and the author of a dozen books, and is credited with a leading role in establishing queer studies in mainstream academic studies.
10 Facts About Alan Sinfield
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Alan Sinfield was born in Southgate, north London, on 17 December 1941 to Lucy and Ernest Sinfield; they had one more son, Mark.
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Ernest Sinfield died serving in the Royal Air Force in 1944, and Lucy began experiencing Parkinson's disease soon after, though she continued working, washing dishes in a cafe in difficult conditions.
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Alan Sinfield attended the Royal Wolverhampton School on a scholarship for children who had lost parents in the War.
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Alan Sinfield learned the guitar and had a skiffle band, which included his brother.
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Alan Sinfield was appointed as a lecturer in English at the University of Sussex in 1965, eventually becoming Professor of English and Cultural Studies in 1990.
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Alan Sinfield's Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain, first published in 1989, is a revolutionary socialist interpretation of the postwar cultural settlement and its destruction.
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Alan Sinfield was himself the editor of the journal for a long period.
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Alan Sinfield became the partner of Jonathan Dollimore in the 1970s, and Alan Sinfield purchased a cottage in Shropshire in this period.
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Alan Sinfield suffered from Parkinson's disease, and Quinn became his full-time carer after the illness began to affect Alan Sinfield's speech.