EMPLOYMENT

2005-to date: Review editor of Futures , the journal of policy, planning and futures studies, Elsevier Publishers.

2004-to date: Associate Editor of Third Text , the international art and visual culture journal.

2004-2005: Consultant organizer and programme writer, 'Writing Europe' Conference (29 June-2 July 2005) for the British Council Ukraine, Kiev.

1999-2003: Commissioning Editor of the Postmodern Encounter series, Icon Books Ltd.

1995: Member of the Editorial Board, ACT Journal of Art Criticism and Theory, Kent Institute of Art & Design.

1991-2003: Originating editor and art director of the Introducing Books Series, Icon Books Ltd., UK.

1985-1990: Co-director Wyvern Publications UK Ltd., an originating studio of packaged illustrated books.

1974-83: Co-founder and director of the Writers & Readers Publishing Cooperative Ltd, with John Berger, Arnold Wesker and Chris Searle, and originating editor and art director of the Beginners Books Documentary Comicbooks series.

TEACHING AND LECTURES

2005: 'Marx's Theory of Value', module lecture, Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University London, February 'The Europe Quartet', consultation paper on conference organization for the British Council Ukraine, Kiev.

2004: 'Finding One's Own Voice' lecture and writing workshop, Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University, London, 12 May.

Participant in video conference with British Council, London and Kiev, Ukraine, 18 March.

'Theories of Criticism', lecture module, Department of Arts Policy and Management, City University, London, 12 January-15 March.

2003: 'What is Art?' lecture and seminar, London Metropolitan University, March

1989: Lecturer in English Art and Culture, Nichiei Culture Exchange Ltd., for Japanese students abroad

1965-1967: Extramural lecturer in History and English Literature, Loyola College, University of Montreal

1963: History, French, English Literature teacher, Cardinal Newman High School, Montreal

PUBLICATIONS

Books, Articles, Plays:

2004: Introducing Postmodernism, revised and expanded edition, Icon Books Ltd., UK

'Some enchanted evening, the future is called the past', with Dr Juliet Steyn, text in art catalogue Tempered Ground , Museum of Garden History, London, Parabola Publications UK

2003: 'Inciting Romanticism', with Dr Juliet Steyn, in David Cotterrell: The Impossible Object , artist's book, Black Dog Publishing, London and New York

2002: Yukio Mishima's Report to the Emperor: A Novel, Sinclair-Stevenson, London

Russian translation, AST Publications, Moscow, 2005

2001: Introducing Existentialism , Icon Books Ltd., UK

1999: Susan Trangmar: Ariadne's Dream, art catalogue text with Dr. Juliet Steyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall

1998: Walter Benjamin , with Howard Caygill and Alex Coles, Icon Books Ltd., UK

1997: 'Axis Enigma', an essay on Yukio Mishima, Pier Paolo Pasolini \ and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in Endgames , ACT 3 Journal , Pluto Press, London

Fernando Pessoa: the Portuguese Faust , a play staged by Marcello Sambati of Dark Camera at the Palazzo San Michele a Ripa, 17 May

Heterononymous , co-curator's catalogue, a transfer to Rome at the Palazzo San Michele a Ripa, organised by Achille Bonito Oliva and Anna Maria Nassisi, of the 1995 London art exhibition

1995: Pretext: Heteronyms, co-curator's catalogue for an art exhibition organised by the arts trust Rear Window, London

'Pessoa Missing Person', in Other than Identity , ed. Dr. Juliet Steyn, University of Manchester Press Introducing Postmodernism , Icon Books Ltd., UK

1985: King Oedipus by Sophocles, translation and layout, illustrated by Kenneth J. McQueenie, Abacus Sphere Books

Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, adaptation and layout, illustrated by Oscar Zarate, Abacus Sphere Books

Both aforementioned books originated by Wyvern Publications Ltd., in the World Theatre Classics series, full-colour graphic novel format

'Figures in Speech', Gulbenkian Arts Magazine , Coloquio Artes, Lisbon No.70, September 1986

The Mosque, Part II of Italia Perversa, Quartet Books Ltd

Destroying America, Part III of Italia Perversa, Quartet Books Ltd

1985: Stalin's Orphans, Part I of Italia Perversa , a fiction trilogy, Quartet Books Ltd

1981: Translation 'Gramsci's Language', by Pier Paolo Pasolini, in Approaches to Gramsci , edited by Anne Showstack Sassoon, Writers & Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd

1979: Freud for Beginners, Writers & Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd. Translated into 12 languages (now published by Icon Books as the Introducing series)

1978: 'Some Thoughts on Freud's Discovery of Childhood' in Changing Childhood , edited by Martin Hoyles, Writers & Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd

1977: Lenin for Beginners , Writers & Readers Publishing CooperativeSociety Ltd. Translated into 12 languages (now published by Icon Books as the Introducing series)

1976: Words as Definitions of Experience , with Arnold Wesker, essays, Writers & Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd

1975: Marx for Beginners by Rius, translation and layout, Writers & Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Ltd

1974: Dada , film script and adaptation with Rex Bloomstein and Philip Oxman, for Australian radio

1973: Review articles for The Burlington Magazine

1972: The Street to Damascus , poems, Covent Garden Press Ltd

EDUCATION

Academic Qualifications:

1993-94: Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College, London

1992-94: Research Associate, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King's College, London: research project - a critical biography of the Portuguese modernist poet, Fernando Pessoa.

1973: D.Phil., Sociology of Art, University of Sussex, Department of the History of Ideas. Thesis title: 'The Origins of Art Criticism in the Classical Greek and Later Phases of Antiquity'.

External Examiners: Martin Robertson, former Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, Oxford; Benedict Nicholson, later Editor of the Burlington Magazine. Other readers: Peter Levi, St. Anthony's College, Oxford; Norman Bryson, former Director of English Studies, King's College, Cambridge.

1967-1983: Postgraduate Studies, Department of the History of Ideas, University of Sussex. Tutors: Hans Hess, Peter Burke.

1962: Honours Degree, English Literature, Loyola College, University of Montreal

1957: University Entrance Arts and Science Diploma, D'Arcy McGee High School, Montreal

Supplementary Studies:

1961-2: Tutorials in harmony, counterpoint and orchestration with the composer and conductor, Michel Perrault and the organist Conrad Letendre

1953-5: Further studies in piano and musical theory, Montreal Conservatory

1953:Diplome Etudes Musicales, University of Montreal

Awards:

1986: Canada Council Arts Award Grant for Fiction Writing

1980: Directors Club Merit Award, New York, for art direction of the Beginners' Books Documentary Series

1968-1973: Canada Council Grants for D.Phil. programme

1967: Province of Quebec Bursary for Postgraduate Studies in Art History

1953: E. Archambault Pour Mérite gold medal finalist and music scholarship, Montreal Conservatory

Professional Memberships:

2005: Member of AICA, International Association of Art Critics, British Section

Languages:

Italian, French, Portuguese. Reading knowledge - German, Latin, Classical Greek