Colin MacCabe teaches Literature in the 17th-Century and Literature and Media in the 20th-Century. His research interests include: history of English since 1500, psychoanalysis, Joyce, and linguistics. He is also head of research at the British Film Institute in London. MacCabe is the author of James Joyce and the Revolution of the Word, Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics, Tracking the Signifier, and Diary of a Young Soul Rebel (with Isaac Julien). He is also editor of Signs of the Times: Introductory Readings in Textual Semiotics, The Talking Cure: Essays in Psychoanalysis and Language, High Theory/Low Culture, The Linguistics of Writing, Futures for English, and James Joyce: New Perspectives. He is also an editor of the journal Critical Quarterly.