Chris Weedon (born 1952,
Hamburg) is a British academic, and Professor Emerita at
Cardiff University.
Life
She graduated from
Southampton University and took her doctorate at the
University of Birmingham. After her Phd she went into teaching whilst living in the UK and Germany. She joined Cardiff University in 1984.[1]
Her 1987 book Feminist Practice & Poststructuralist Theory[2] has been translated into German and Korean.
In 2010 she announced £4m funding for a project on multiculturalism at Cardiff University. The project would fund four PhD students, and the research would look at the challenges to culture for both white and black citizens. Weedon considered that there were particular complexities for those living in Wales.[3]
Weedon was the chair of the Butetown History & Arts Centre.[3]
^Konnertz. 1991. "Subjekt Neuerscheinungen: Chris Weedon: Wissen und Erfahrung. Feministische Praxis und poststrukturalistische Theorie. Linda J. Nicholson (Hrsg.): Feminism/Postmodernism". Die Philosophin. 2, no. 4: 62-67.
^ Streese, K. 1996. "Jordan, Glenn, und Chris Weedon: Cultural Politics. Class, Gender, Race and the Postmodern World". ARGUMENT -BERLIN-. 38, no. 3: 459-461.
^Russi, R. 1999. "Chris Weedon, Postwar Women's Writing in German". SEMINAR -TORONTO-. 35, no. 1: 91-9