Steven Connor is Director of Research of the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College, London. He is Grace 2 Professor of English Emeritus in the University of Cambridge, and an Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

His most recent books are A History of Asking (London: Open Humanities Press, 2023), Dreamwork: Why All Work is Imaginary (London: Reaktion/Chicago University Press, 2023), Styles of Seriousness (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2023) and Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography (London: Reaktion, 2025). He is coeditor of the Technographies series from Open Humanities Press.

Exorbitance: A Grammar of Overdoing will appear from Stanford University Press in June 2026. He is currently completing Always Assuming: For an Understanding of Implicit Understanding, and, with Patrick ffrench, developing Digital Lifetimes 1970-2030, a collective commission of enquiry into the lifetimes of, and in, technology. His next book will be The University of the Absurd, an institutional autobiography.