Colin MacCabe is a British writer and film producer. He is distinguished professor of English and film at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught at the universities of Cambridge, Strathclyde, Exeter, and Birkbeck, University of London. Between 1985 and 1998 MacCabe worked for the British Film Institute first as Head of Production and then as Head of Research and Education. MacCabe was educated at St Benedict's School and the University of Cambridge where he began his academic career. He came to public prominence in 1981 when he was denied tenure, apparently in consequence of his position at the centre of a much publicised dispute within the faculty of English concerning the teaching of structuralism. He has published widely on film and literature with particular emphasis on James Joyce, Jean-Luc Godard, and topics in the history and theory of language. He has served as chairman of the London Consortium, which he co-founded with Mark Cousins, Paul Hirst, and Richard Humphreys. 

February 9th, 1949 in (Age 75)