Английская Википедия:Edward James (historian)
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Edward Frederick James (born 14 May 1947) is a British scholar of medieval history and science fiction.[1] He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at University College, Dublin. James received the Hugo Award for his non-fiction book The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (co-edited with Farah Mendlesohn), and the Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to SF and fantasy scholarship.
Biography
Шаблон:BLP sources section James was born in Solihull, Warwickshire.[1] He attended the Solihull School and read Modern History at St John's College, Oxford (1965-1968). He completed postgraduate work at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, 1968-1970, supervised by Professor Christopher Hawkes. James was awarded D.Phil in 1975, for a thesis entitled ‘South-West Gaul from the fifth to the eighth century: the contribution of archaeology’.[2] He began teaching in 1970 at University College, Dublin.[1]
He was a lecturer at the Department of Medieval History in University College Dublin from 1970 to 1978. He was a lecturer in early medieval history at the Department of History, University of York, 1978 to 1995, as well as Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York from 1990 to 1995.
He was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Reading from 1995 to 2004 and was a Director of the Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, 1999–2001. He retired in 2012.
Recognition
James is the recipient of the 2004 Pilgrim Award for lifetime contribution to science fiction and fantasy scholarship. He has also won the Hugo Award for Best Related Work and a BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction, in addition to multiple nominations for individual works.[3]
| YearШаблон:Efn | Work | AwardШаблон:Efn | Result[3] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century | Eaton Award | Шаблон:Won |
| Locus Award | Шаблон:Nom | ||
| 2000 | Terry Pratchett: Guilty of Literature | Hugo Award for Best Related Work | Шаблон:Nom |
| 2003 | The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction | Hugo Award for Best Related Work | Шаблон:Won |
| 2009 | A Short History of Fantasy | BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction | Шаблон:Nom |
| 2012 | The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature | British Fantasy Award | Шаблон:Nom |
| BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction | Шаблон:Nom | ||
| Hugo Award for Best Related Work | Шаблон:Nom | ||
| Locus Award | Шаблон:Nom | ||
| 2014 | "Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers in the Great War" | BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction | Шаблон:Won |
| 2015 | Lois McMaster Bujold | BSFA Award for Best Non-Fiction | Шаблон:Nom |
Personal life
James married his fellow academic, Farah Mendlesohn in 2001.[1]
Selected works
- Visigothic Spain: New Approaches. Edited by James. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. (Шаблон:ISBN)
- The Origins of France: From Clovis to the Capetians, 500–1000. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. Шаблон:ISBN.
- The Franks. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1988. Шаблон:ISBN.
- The Profession of Science Fiction: SF Writers on their Craft and Ideas. Edited by Maxim Jakubowski and James; foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Insights series. Macmillan UK, 1992. Шаблон:ISBN.[4] New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. (Шаблон:ISBN.Шаблон:Efn
- Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Шаблон:ISBN)
- The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Edited by James and Farah Mendlesohn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Britain in the First Millennium. London: Oxford University Press, 2001. Шаблон:ISBN.
- Europe's Barbarians, AD 200–600. Harlow, England: Pearson Longman, 2009. Шаблон:ISBN.
- A Short History of Fantasy. Farah Mendlesohn and James. London: Middlesex University Press, 2009. Шаблон:ISBN.
- The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Edited by James and Farah Mendlesohn. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Шаблон:ISBN.
Notes
References
External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокSFEне указан текст - ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ "Bibliography: The Profession of Science Fiction" (1992 book). ISFDB. Retrieved 2015-03-26.
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