Education and Academia
He was educated at De La Salle College, a Roman Catholic grammar school in Salford. He later attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he earned both his M.A. and Ph.D..
He became a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Having spent some years at Oxford at Wadham College, Linacre College and St Catherine's College, he was John Edward Taylor Professor of Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester until he was forcibly retired in 2008.
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