Robert J. C. Young (1950) predavao je do 2005. englesku književnost i kritičku teoriju na Sveučilištu Oxford. Od 2005. je profesor engleske i komparativne književnosti na New York University. Do sada je objavio šest knjiga: “White Mythologies: Writing History and the West”, 1990; “Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Culture, Theory and Race”, 1995; “Torn Halves: Political Conflict in Literary and Cultural Theory”, 1996; “Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction”, 2001; “Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction”, 2003; “The Idea of English Ethnicity”, 2008.