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From 1966 to 1972 attended Christ"s Hospital School and from 1972-1973 Bognor Regis Comprehensive School. Completed Bachelor, with a first-class degree. 1980 Doctor of Philosophy thesis on prose fantasy and mythography.
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From 1966 to 1972 attended Christ"s Hospital School and from 1972-1973 Bognor Regis Comprehensive School. Completed Bachelor, with a first-class degree. 1980 Doctor of Philosophy thesis on prose fantasy and mythography.
He was formerly the academic director of the London Consortium and professor of modern literature and theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Born: Bognor Regis, Sussex, in 1955. 1973 Read English at Wadham College, Oxford - Terry Eagleton, tutor.
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.
2012 became Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. 2013 became Fellow of Birkbeck College.
"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. "Pulverulence", Cabinet, 35 (2009): 71-77.
"Absolute Levity", Comparative Critical Studies, 6 (2009): 411-27. Steven Connor (14 February 2009).
"Earslips: Of Mishearings and Mondegreens".
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"Strings in the Earth and Air", New Formations (Special Issue on Postmodernism, Music and Cultural Theory, ed David Bennett ), 66 (2009), 58-67.
