Steven Connor is Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge having previously been Professor of Modern Literature and Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. His published works include: Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the Contemporary (1989), Theory and Critical Value (1992), and The English Novel in History 1950-1995 (1995), The Matter of Air: Science and the Art of the Ethereal (2010) and Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things (2011)
