Australian · b. 1946
Bill Ashcroft is Emeritus Professor in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. Along with Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, he co-authored The Empire Writes Back (1989), the foundational text of postcolonial literary theory in English. He has also written extensively on postcolonial transformations, utopianism, and the global spread of English.