STEVEN CONNOR

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name and Title
Professor Steven Connor

Date of Birth
11 February 1955, Bognor Regis, Sussex, UK

Education
1976-79 Wadham College, Oxford, 1973-6 (BA); 1976-9 (D.Phil)
1980 D.Phil: ‘Prose Fantasy and Mythography, 1880-1900’
1976 BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature (First Class)
1971-2 Bognor Regis Comprehensive School
1966-71 Christ’s Hospital, Horsham

Employment
2022- Professor of English, Director of Research, Digital Futures Institute, King’s College, London
2018-22 Director, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge
2012-22 Grace 2 Professor of English, University of Cambridge
2012-22 Professorial Fellow, Peterhouse, Cambridge
2013-22 Tutor for Graduate Affairs, Peterhouse, Cambridge
2018-22 Garden Steward, Peterhouse Cambridge
1994-2012 Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Birkbeck College, London
1991-94 Senior Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College, London
1991-94, Reader in Modern English Literature, Birkbeck College, London
1979 Lecturer in English, Birkbeck College

Administration
2019-21 Chair, Faculty Promotions Committee, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge
2016-17 Deputy Head of School of Arts and Humanities, University of Cambridge
2014-16 Chair, Faculty of English, Cambridge
2001-12 Birkbeck College Orator
2003-12 Academic Director, London Consortium Programme in Humanities and Cultural Studies
1998-2001 Birkbeck Pro-Vice-Master for International and Research Students
1998-2001 Chair, Birkbeck College Web Editorial Board
1995-7 Chair, Birkbeck Arts and Social Sciences Degrees Sub-Committee

Grants and Awards
Direct responsibility as CRASSH Director for framing bids, and overseeing research grants held in the Centre. These include:

• The Global as ARTEFACT: Understanding the Patterns of Global Political History Through an Anthropology of Knowledge (ERC 2017-23, £1,191,148)
• Qualitative and Quantitative Social Science (ERC 2017-22, £679,488)
• Religious Diversity and the Secular University (Andrew W. Mellon 2017-22, £741,935)
• Cambridge Digital Humanities (Isaac Newton Trust 2020-22, £264,000)

Led planning and negotiation for the following philanthropic donations, for which I am named as PI:

• donation from the Erck Rickmers and the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation of £2,002,000 to support a Centre for the Humanities and Social Change in CRASSH, 2018-22
• donation from the Minderoo Foundation of £3.5 million to support the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, 2020-2025. This grant includes a contribution of £26K p.a. in respect of my time as Director

Also named as PI for grants of from the Swedish Colllegium for Advanced Study of 237,566 and 213,947 in respect of postdoctoral fellowships held in CRASSH and £30,000 from Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship in CRASSH (Helle Porsdam) 2021-22.

Appointments and Honours
2019- Member, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College
2018-20 Convenor, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition, Culture, Media and Performance Section
2019 Panel Member, STARS Postdoctoral Programme, University of Padua
2016 – Fellow of British Academy
2018-22 Selection Panel Member, Pro Futura Scientia Programme, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies
2013-22 Chair, Arts Selection Panel, Gates Trust, University of Cambridge
2012-19 Expert Review Group, Wellcome Trust
2006-9 Member AHRC Peer Review Panel
2000-2001 Member, English RAE Panel

External Examining and Related Responsibilities
1997-2000 External Examiner, MPhil and MSt, University of Oxford
1997-2000 External Examiner, English Tripos, Part 1 University of Cambridge
1996-2000 External Examiner, MA in Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
1995-2000 External Examiner, MA in Criticism and Theory, University of Exeter
1993-8 Visiting Examiner, BA in English, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
1993-8 External Examiner, BA in English, University of Kent
1993 Visiting Examiner, MA in Literature, Culture and Modernity, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
1991-95 External Examiner, MA in Theories of Representation, University of North London
1990 Validation Panel, Humanities Postgraduate Qualification Scheme, Polytechnic of North London
1990 Visiting Examiner, Department of English, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London
1990-3 External Examiner for Open University, Art and Society in Postwar Britain
1991-2 Validation Panel, Roehampton Institute Single Honours BA in English
1988-91 External Examiner for Roehampton Institute of Higher Education
1984-91 External Examiner for School of Languages, Polytechnic of Central London,

PhD Examining
Around 150 PhDs examined in total: approximately 30 in the University of London (every college) and approximately 110 elsewhere, for the following universities among others: (UK) Birmingham, Brunel, Cambridge, Cardiff, Durham, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Kent, Kingston, Lancaster, Leeds, Leeds Met, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Reading, Roehampton, Southampton, South Bank, Sussex; Warwick; UWE; York. (Outside the UK) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Ghent, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Western Australia, Sydney, Queensland, University of Western Sydney, Singapore, Victoria University of Wellington, Turku (Finland), Helsinki, Nijmegen (Netherlands), Rutgers, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Trinity College, Dublin, University College Dublin, University of Cape Town.

Editorial
Founding Editor of Technographies Book Series, Open Humanities Press.
Member of the editorial boards of Parallax, Critical Quarterly, Journal of Visual Culture, Senses and Society, Journal of Beckett Studies, Blackwell Literature Compass, Australian Humanities Review,  SoundEffects – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience, Ctrl-Z.

 Broadcasting
Regular reviewer and commentator 1985-present for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, especially Woman’s Hour, Front Row, Nightwaves, In Our Time, Thinking Allowed, The Verb, Word of Mouth, The Forum and Free Thinking.

 As writer and presenter:
Noise, BBC Radio 3 February 24-28th, 1997
Lyrical Ballads, BBC Radio 3, Spring 1998
Rough Magic, BBC Radio 4, January-February 2000
Smog, BBC Radio 3, 2 December 2002
A Certain Slant of Light, BBC Radio 3, 31 October 2003
On the Air, BBC Radio 3, 13 June 2004
Corridors, BBC Radio 3, 22 June 2004
On the Offensive, BBC Radio 3 14 October 2008
Sound Stories, RTÉ Radio 1 (Ireland), 9 September 2008
Obnubilation. A talk given in a series devoted to Clouds, in BBC Radio 3’s series The Essay, 25 February 2009
Concentrate. A talk given as part of The Human Zoo, BBC Radio 4, 5th March 2013
By Numbers. A talk given as part of The Human Zoo, BBC Radio 4, 27th January 2015

Website
www.stevenconnor.com