Said, Edward W.
SAID, Edward W.
SAID, Edward W. American, b. 1935. Genres: International relations/ Current affairs, Literary criticism and history. Career: Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, NYC, since 1970 (Instructor, 1963-65; Assistant Professor, 1965-68; Associate Professor, 1968- 70). Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1967-68; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, California, 1975-76; Parr Professor of English and Compartive Literature, 1977-89; Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, 1989-92. Publications: Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, 1966; Beginnings: Intention and Method, 1975; Orientalism, 1979; The Question of Palestine, 1980; Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World, 1981; The World, the Text, and the Critic, 1983; After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives, 1986; (ed.) Literature and Society, 1986; (with Christopher Hitchens) Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, 1987; Musical Elaborations, 1991; Culture and Imperialism, 1993. Died 2003.