Steven Connor
Encyclopedia
Steven Connor is the Academic Director of the London Consortium
and Professor
of Modern Literature
and Theory
at Birkbeck, University of London
.
London Consortium
The London Consortium is a graduate school in the UK offering multidisciplinary Masters and Doctoral programs in the humanities and cultural studies at the University of London. It is administered by Birkbeck, University of London, one of the constituent colleges of the University of London, and...
and Professor
Professor
A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
of Modern Literature
Modern literature
Modern literature can either refer to*modernist literature *modern literature ....
and Theory
Theory
The English word theory was derived from a technical term in Ancient Greek philosophy. The word theoria, , meant "a looking at, viewing, beholding", and referring to contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action...
at Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. It offers many Master's and Bachelor's degree programmes that can be studied either part-time or full-time, though nearly all teaching is...
.
Biography
- Born: Bognor Regis, Sussex, in 1955.
- From 1966 to 1972 attended Christ's Hospital School - expelled.
- 1973 Read English at Wadham College, Oxford - Terry Eagleton, tutor. Completed BA, with a first-class degree.
- 1980 DPhil thesis on Prose Fantasy and Mythography.
- 1980 appointed Lecturer in English at Birkbeck College.
- 1992 helped develop collaborative interdisciplinary graduate programme with Birkbeck College, the Tate Gallery, the British Film Institute and the Architectural Association.
- 2002 succeeded Paul Hirst as the Academic Director of the London Consortium.
Books
- Charles Dickens (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985)
- Samuel Beckett: Repetition, Theory and Text (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988)
- Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary (1989) 2nd, revised and enlarged edn (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
- Theory and Cultural Value (1992)
- The English Novel in History 1950-1995 (1995)
- James Joyce (Exeter: Northcote House, 1996)
- Dumbstruck - A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (2000)
- The Book of Skin (2003)
- Fly (London: Reaktion, 2006)
- The Matter of Air: Science and Art of the Ethereal (London: Reaktion, 2010)
Select Articles
- 'Next to Nothing' , Tate Etc., 12 (2008): 82-93.
- 'The Shakes: Conditions of Tremor', The Senses and Society, 3 (2008): 205-20.
- ‘On Such and Such a Day…In Such a World': Beckett’s Radical Finitude. In Borderless Beckett/Beckett sans frontières, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, 19 (2008): 35-50.
- ‘Le Voci Dentro e Fuori di Noi’, (interview with Enzo Mansueto), Rodeo, 43 (2008): 66.
- 'The Right Stuff', Modern Painters (March 2009): 58-63.
- 'Strings in the Earth and Air', New Formations (Special Issue on Postmodernism, Music and Cultural Theory, ed. David Bennett ), 66 (2009), 58-67.
- 'Pulverulence', Cabinet, 35 (2009): 71-77.
- 'Absolute Levity', Comparative Critical Studies, 6 (2009): 411-27.