Hanif Kureishi: A Life in Accelerated Popular Culture

Steve Redhead is professor of sport and media cultures in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton in the United Kingdom. For many years he was professor of law and popular culture at Manchester Metropolitan University where he created and co-directed the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture (MIPC). He has been visiting European professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and visiting professor in communications and cultural studies at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, where he was also seconded to work on mobile city cultures and creative industries for the Premier of Western Australia. He chaired the Premier's Creative Industries Policy Taskforce in the State Government in Perth in 2004. He is the author, or editor, of thirteen books, including The End-of-the-Century Party (Manchester University Press 1990), Rave Off: Politics and Deviance in Contemporary Youth Culture (Ashgate 1993), Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture (Edinburgh University Press and University of Toronto Press 2004), The Paul Virilio Reader (Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press 2004), and The Jean Baudrillard Reader (Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press 2008). He is co-editor of Berg's international Subcultural Style book series. His whole back catalogue is on his personal website which can be found at <http://www.steveredhead.com>.