Richard Todd is Reader in English Literature at the free University, Amsterdam. He has taught extensively in Western Europe and the United States and has lectured and published widely on the early modern period, 19th- and 20th-century literature in particular. His books include: Iris Murdoch (1984) and The Opacity of Signs: Acts of Interpretation in George Herbert's 'The Temple' (1988). His latest book Consuming Fictions (1996) is a major study of current fiction and the 1980s prize culture in Britain.
