| Activity | Date of Birth: 08/09/1947
Place of Birth: London
University and Professional Training:
University of Bristol, BA Joint Honours, Philosophy and Psychology, 1968
University of Bristol, PhD Dept.of Psychology
Professional career:
Research Assistant to Professor H. Tajfel Dept.of Psychology University of Bristol, Summer 1968
Research Assistant to Dr C.Fraser, Dept.of Psychology, University of Bristol, 1968-1969
Postgraduate Student and Research Assistant to Professor H.Tajfel, University of Bristol, 1969-1972
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept.of Psychology, University of Bristol 1972-1973
Lecturer, Dept.of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 1973-1984
SSRC funded Research Fellow, Dept.of Psychology, University of Birmingham, 1980-1981
Professor of Social Sciences, Dept.of Social Sciences, Loughborough University 1985-
Head of Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, 1986-1990
Visiting Professor, Dept.of Rhetoric and Communication, Temple University, Philadelphia, 1991
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Dept.of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1992
Visiting Professor, Dept.of Developmental Psychology, University of Rome, La Sapienza, 1996
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, 2006
Other Honours and Awards:
Erik H.Erikson Award, International Society for Political Psychology, 1983
Gustavus Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America, 1996
Rock 'n' Roll Jews shortlisted for Wingate Prize, 2001
Involvement with BPS and/or other societies and organisations:
Keynote/Plenary speaker at Social Psychology Section of BPS (twice), (nd)
Keynote/Plenary speaker at History and Philosophy Section of BPS (three times), (nd)
C.S.Myers Lecturer, BPS Annual Conference 2002
Member of Editorial Board for British Journal of Social Psychology.
Sources: M Billig's Personal Details Sheet and Loughborough University's website.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| PublishedWorks | Books:
Billig, M. (1976). Social Psychology and Intergroup Relations. London: Academic Press.
Billig, M. (1978). Fascists: A social psychological view of the National Front. London:
Academic Press.
Billig, M., Condor, S., Edwards, D., Gane, M., Middleton, D. and Radley, A.R. (1988). Ideological Dilemmas. London: Sage Publications.
Billig, M. (1995). Banal Nationalism. London: Sage Publications.
Billig, M. (1996). Arguing and Thinking: a rhetorical approach to social psychology, revised edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Billig, M. (1998). Talking of the Royal Family: second edition with new introduction. London: Routledge.
Billig, M. (1999). Freudian Repression: conversation creating the unconscious. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Billig, M. (2000). Rock’n’Roll Jews. Nottingham: Five Leaves/ New York: Syracuse University Press.
Billig, M. (2005). Laughter and Ridicule: towards a social critique of humour. London: Sage.
Billig, M. (2008). The Hidden Roots of Critical Psychology: understanding the impact of Locke, Shaftesbury and Reid. London: Sage.
Articles and Book Chapters
Billig, M. (1997). The dialogic unconscious: psychoanalysis, discursive psychology and the nature of repression. British Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 139-159.
Billig, M. (1997). Freud and Dora: repressing an oppressed identity. Theory, Culture and Society, 14, 29-55.
Billig, M. (1998). Dialogic repression and the Oedipus Complex: reinterpreting the Little Hans case. Culture and Psychology, 4, 11-47.
Billig, M. (1999). Commodity fetishism and repression: reflections on Marx, Freud and the psychology of consumer capitalism. Theory and Psychology, 9, 313-329.
Billig, M. (1999). Freud’s response to reported incest: the case of Paul Lorenz, the ‘Rat Man’. Psychoanalytic Studies, 1, 145-157.
Billig, M. (1999). Whose terms? Whose ordinariness? Rhetoric and ideology in conversation analysis. Discourse and Society, 10, 543-558.
Billig, M. (2000). Freud's different version of forgetting 'Signorelli': rhetoric and repression. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 81, 483-498.
Billig, M. (2001). Humour and hatred: the racist jokes of the Ku Klux Klan. Discourse and Society, 12, 291-313.
Billig, M. (2001). Embarrassment and humour: limits of 'nice guy' theories of social life. Theory, Culture and Society, 18 (5), 23-43.
Billig, M. (2001). Arguing. In The New Handbook of Language and Social Psychology, ed. W.P. Robinson and H. Giles. Chichester: John Wiley (pp. 241-251).
Billig, M. (2001). Discursive approaches to studying conscious and unconscious thoughts. In From Subjects to Subjectivities: a handbook of: interpretive and participatory Methods, ed. D.L. Tolman and M. Brydon-Miller. New York: New York University Press (pp. 290-303).
Billig, M. (2002). Ideology, language and discursive psychology. In Ideology and Postmodernity, ed. S. Malesevic and I. Mackenzie. London: Pluto Press (pp. 134-156).
Billig, M. (2002). Henri Tajfel’s ‘Cognitive aspects of prejudice’ and the psychology of bigotry. British Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 171-188.
Billig, M. (2003). Critical Discourse Analysis and the rhetoric of critique. In Critical Discourse Analysis: theory and interdisciplinarity, ed. G. Weiss and R. Wodak. London: Palgrave Macmillan. (pp. 35-46).
Billig, M. (2003). Political rhetoric. In Handbook of Political Psychology, ed. D.O. Sears, L. Huddy and R. Jervis. Oxford: Oxford University Press (pp. 222-250).
Billig, M. and MacMillan, K. (2005). Metaphor, idiom and ideology: the search for ‘no smoking guns’ across time. Discourse and Society, 16, 459-480.
Billig, M.(2005). Violent racist humour. In S. Lockyer and M. Pickering (eds), Beyond a Joke: the limits of humour. London: Palgrave Macmillan (pp. 25-44).
Billig, M. (2005). Banal nationalism. In P. Spencer and H. Wollman (eds) Nations and nationalism: a reader. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (pp. 184-196).
Billig, M. (2006). A psychoanalytic discursive psychology: from consciousness to unconsciousness. Discourse Studies, 8, 17-24.
Billig, M. (2006). Lacan’s misuse of psychology: evidence, rhetoric and the mirror stage. Theory, Culture and Society, 23(4), 1-26.
Billig, M. (2006). Kritische Psychologie und die Rhetorik der Kritik. Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik, 117, 7-30.
Billig, M. (2007). Politics as an appearance and reality show. In D. Wring, J. Green, R. Mortimore and S. Atkinson (eds) Political Communications: the General Election Campaign of 2005. London: Palgrave Macmillan (pp.215-229).
Billig, M. (2008). The language of critical discourse analysis: the case of nominalization. Discourse & Society, 19, 783-800.
Billig, M. (2008). Nominalizing and de-nominalizing: a reply. Discourse & Society, 19, 829-841.
Billig, M. (2008). Social representations and repression: examining the first formulations of Freud and Moscovici. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 38, 355-368.
Billig, M. (2009). Psychologie discursive, rhétorique et la question de l’agentivité . Semen, 27, 157-184.
Billig, M. (2009). Reflecting on a critical engagement with banal nationalism. Sociological Review, 57, 347-352.
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